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Kanagram Subject Area: Literacy, Language Recommended Grade Levels: 1 - 6 Kanagram is a program from the KDE project - this program mixes up the letters of a word (creating an anagram), and you have to guess what the mixed up word is. Kanagram features several built-in word lists, hints, and a cheat feature which reveals the original word.
Figure 1 : Kanagram Screenshot Ontario Elementary Curriculum Expectations for Language (2006) Grades 1 – 8 *note: this is based on the 2006 Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1-8: Language*
Full curriculum information at: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/elementary/language18currb.pdf How can Kanagram help? Kanagram is a word game that provides opportunities to students to use words naturally in a variety of contexts, to connect new words to those that they already know, and to practice spelling. Playing word games develops student awareness of rhyme and word patterns, and stimulates inquisitiveness about the meaning of words. Word anagrams have been effectively used before to support Ontario student success in literacy, and Kanagram brings this success to the computer lab. |
