App Review: Word World
About a year and a half ago, I stumbled onto Word World, a cartoon produced by PBS Kids. I was instantly drawn in as much as my kids, with the cartoon’s engaging visuals and quirky characters. And the best part?
The show is educational!!! The animals and objects are physically made of their letters (see image of Pig), and every episode focuses on one mission:”Let’s build a word!”
Admitting my bias before I review the app, I can honestly say Word World is one of the best kids shows I’ve ever seen. Word World has a lot of power to shape the edutainment app-sphere.
Like the show, the app (Build a word) is focused on building words, which are transformed into objects with a simple pinch of the captured letters. The app concept is perfectly consistent with the mission of each episode: find the right letters to build the word at hand. The fun part is trying to grab the letters as they bounce around the screen!
At first, my little ones struggled with the app’s functionality. It was difficult for them to grab the letters, and they occasionally lost the letters while dragging them into the slots. 
Their clunky little fingers quickly got better, however, and the challenge now is keeping my kids entertained by the relatively small number of words to spell.
The Word World app makes kids forget they’re learning to read, and at a 99¢ pricetag, it is more than a steal.
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What do you think of the apps “Mary’s Lamb” and “working on the railroad” they are my kids favorites and i dont see them on the blog. Great Blog by the way!!
I can’t say that I have a lot of experience with ‘world world’ however I love the idea of each animal being created with the letters of it’s name. It would be fairly amusing to see a little longer animal name such as antelope or crocodile.
At .99 cents this definitely sounds like something that would be worth a try. If it’s a success fantastic. If not, well it’s .99!