WordWorld: Welcome to WordWorld

In WordWorld, words come alive, words save the day, and words become a child's best friend.

Welcome to WordWorld, the first preschool series where words are truly the stars of the show! Come along for an adventurous romp into a colorful, vibrant world of words with the lovable, legible WordFriends, animals whose bodies are made up of the letters that spell the word they are!
The WordFriends go on comic adventures and face challenges that can only be resolved with the right word. That word is built letter by letter, sound by sound, during the funky "Build a Word!" song at the end of every episode. Once the word is built it "morphs," or comes alive into the thing it is!
Word building reinforces the pre-reading concept that letters (and their sounds) make words, and that words have real meaning...and power. The series also introduces literacy concepts that preschoolers will encounter as they become readers, such as sounding out letters and rhyming. But most of all, WordWorld helps children get excited about reading and see words as their friends.

Includes these Episodes:
Happy Birthday Dog! Dog's friends are planning a surprise birthday party for him, but they don't have a cake! With a little help from Pig, Frog gathers the letters C-A-K-E...but can he them to the party without ruining the surprise? Sh-Sh-Shark! When Duck befriends a Shark, he learns that the letters S and H make the "sh" sound, and everyone else discovers that you can't judge a shark by his sharp-toothed cover. The Mystery of the Disappearing Pie Pig's pie for Bear has gone missing! Have no fear Detective Sheep is ready to help her WordFriends follow the letter clues and solve the mystery of the disappearing pie! Snug as a Bug When Bug can't sleep because he needs to be snug, he and his favorite neighbor, Frog, have to figure out the end of the rhyme: "Snug as a bug in a..." Can YOU guess the end? Product Description

What took us so long?

My 3 kids love this show and I can't believe that it took this long to come up with such a simple concept! As a parent of 1 kindergartener and 2 not even in preschool yet this show has improved my childrens interest in reading and has inspired their interest in other methods of learning. Even if you just had your first baby or a child entering the school age make this your first educational purchase! Watch the show just once on PBS and you'll immediately realize (like I did) what this show can do for them. November 15, 2008

Wonderful!!!

I'm a kindergarten teacher and I love this show. My class and I watch WordWorld on PBS everyday after lunch while they take turns going to the restroom. They hate it when we have to turn it off and move on because they see the things they learn in the morning in a cool and fun cartoon. This show is very good about reinforcing topics that we are covering in class, not only has it covered letters and sounds, but it has worked on our rhyming skills and using pictures to help figure out what the words really are. Even my students who have had a difficult time with reading love to "build a word." I would highly recommend these movies to anyone, parents and teachers alike. September 22, 2008

Cute and Educational

This series drove me up the wall...why? Because my 3 year old could not get enough it! Which isn't always a bad thing. He was so engaged with the characters and spelled right along with them.

Definitely worth a try for your preschooler! August 22, 2008

Best show going...

We love WordWorld! This program is wonderful! We watch it everymorning on television and then my daugther will watch it on the weekends on dvd! She is starting Kindergarten and she knows all her letters and sounds and can already write in sentences. I will recommend this DVD collection to anyone who asks. August 18, 2008

Great show for early reading skills

My three-year-old adores this show. After he saw it once, he wanted to watch it every morning, but he usually wakes up after the broadcast. So I purchased this one, and it's great. He's really learning from it -- not just literacy skills, but social skills as well. He often talks about the characters and storylines ("Sh-sh-shark!") and applies the same patterns in his everyday speech, such as isolating the initial sound of a word ("D-D-Daddy? Do you want to p-p-play?"). (No, he doesn't stutter!)

We highly recommend it! July 17, 2008

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