“Nice to meet you,” says Bugsy FlameCloud.
“Where are you going?” asks Jack SlothSprout.
“I am going to explore JumpStart,” Bugsy FlameCloud replies. “Follow me!”
JumpStart.com is taking children’s gaming to new heights with the addition of canned chat! Jumpeez can now communicate with one another using pre-selected words and phrases. We know kids love to chat online with their peers, and sometimes dance moves alone won’t cut it. We’re dedicated to keeping your little ones safe and happy, and we’re confident that the new canned chat function will do just that!
Canned chat is now available at JumpStart.com!
Here at JumpStart, we want to make sure your kids are both having fun and, of course, learning. The great thing about canned chat is that while your kids are socializing with their Jumpee friends, they’ll also be learning sight words that are important to their reading skills.
Edward William Dolch is famous for his creation of a list of important words that occur frequently in children’s (and indeed, all!) books. The Dolch words are now known as “sight words” because most of the time, they cannot easily be recognized by pictures or sounded out according to normal phonetic rules. There are 220 sight words and another 95 nouns that should be standard knowledge by third grade. A full list of the Dolch words and additional nouns is available here.
The words that appear in our brand-new canned chat function are based on Dolch’s research. As children use “sight words” repeatedly to communicate with other players in the virtual world, they will become more familiar with them and recognize them more readily. By including many “sight words” in the canned chat menus, we hope to advance the reading levels of our players and build their confidence in school!
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Wow the Jumpee in your picture has 3439 gold coins! Canned chat is fun. Thanks JumpStart!
I found this article so interesting! I am well aware of sight words but, before reading this, I had no idea how many there actually are. Thanks so much for the link to the full list. There are also many more resources available on the site listed.
i found that very instresting to me because its very classcal and very good for your soul its very good trust me its very good ryan