Mar
7th
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7th
A few nights ago my 4 year old son wanted to play on the computer so he started up the laptop and I opened up the browser and sent him off to the PBS Kids site (www.pbskids.org for those curious). He went to the “Super Why!” section of the site since he enjoys that program. “Super Why!” is a show that is about superheroes who go into classic fairytale stories and go on spelling and reading adventures. Anyway, one of the online games allows you to create your own superhero but you need to pass spelling challenges in order to get costume options. They start off with easy 3 letter words and work their way up to 6 letter words in the later rounds and you select the letters from a pool of 6 letters in random order to fill in the blanks. They give you hints by telling you what the letter sounds like.
So, my son is playing this and I’m sitting next to him working on my desktop computer. He’s doing pretty well and he gets to a 6 letter word. The first two letters in this six letter word are I and N and the game is telling him that the third letter sounds like “seh” so he clicks on the letter he thinks it should be and it tells him that is the wrong letter and to try again. He gets a bit frustrated and asks for my help. I turn to the laptop screen and to my disbelief this is what I see on the screen.
So, my son is playing this and I’m sitting next to him working on my desktop computer. He’s doing pretty well and he gets to a 6 letter word. The first two letters in this six letter word are I and N and the game is telling him that the third letter sounds like “seh” so he clicks on the letter he thinks it should be and it tells him that is the wrong letter and to try again. He gets a bit frustrated and asks for my help. I turn to the laptop screen and to my disbelief this is what I see on the screen.