22 May 2025
Wordshark Online
‘Wordshark Online’ is the current edition of Wordshark, offering games for reading and spelling. It is particularly unique in terms of it's adaptability and range of content. It is used in both Primary and Secondary schools and is mostly sold by word of mouth!
- Yearly subscription model
- Access from school as well as home
- Plans start at 20 student users at £360+vat per year
- Smaller plans (allowing just one teacher) available on request
- Unlimited teacher accounts
- All users in Wordshark (teachers/students) organised into ‘groups’
Includes:
- Placement test (can be skipped/re-taken)
- Automatic progression (can be re-set)
- Set Work option, choosing from:
- Published courses (see further below)
- Or own lists (including option to add definitions & courses)
- Free Play, giving students the freedom to choose what they work on
Published courses to choose from (10,000 words/sentences/images)
- Wordshark Course
- Nat.Curriculum 2014 England: spellings
- ‘Alpha to Omega’
- Everyday Vocabulary
- High Frequency Words (HFW)
- Secondary School Subject Lists
- Teaching notes for the Wordshark Course
Viewing activity & progress
- View time spent on games
- View time spent on games in a leaderboard
- Detailed group/individual student progress reports for teachers
- Progress reports for students
Help/training available
- General training page in the information centre
- Free Webinars (introduction to Wordshark)
- Free support.
- Help centre includes videos and teaching notes
Action points for schools
- Free webinars
- 30 day free trial
- Ordering (free extra month if not having a trial)
https://www.wordshark.co.uk/wordshark/schools/