Word Garden

A playful way to connect meaning, sounds, spelling, and print.

Word Garden helps adults support vocabulary and speech-sound learning with anonymous child profiles, sound tables, word clouds, and printable worksheets that make practice feel more concrete and organized. It is designed for the adult to use as a teaching helper with the child, rather than as a self-use app for the child alone.

Open Word Garden Dashboard Read FAQs Read Full User Guide

Why It Helps

The sound table gives adults a clear developmental map, while still allowing them to explore beyond what a child can express right now.

Word clouds surface practice targets quickly, helping adults notice easier concrete words, more advanced abstract words, and already completed items at a glance instead of trying to think of words and activities on the spot.

Level 3 pages combine definition work, sound mapping, onset-rime, related words, and printable activities so one word can be explored from several angles.

Built For Real Use

Anonymous child profiles help keep practice organized without storing personally identifying information.

Suggested-word counts and checklist completion help adults see what still needs attention instead of guessing where to go next.

Printable worksheets make it easy to carry practice into therapy, school, or home routines, while the online checklist keeps progress connected to the dashboard so you can teach a word when you have a spare minute.

The app is meant to guide the adult through what to model, notice, and practice with the child, so the child does not need to operate the app directly.

What You Can Do In Word Garden

Create anonymous child profiles and organize practice by age and sound.

Explore letters, phonemes, and word clouds with developmental context.

Filter words by concrete, abstract, and completed practice status.

Print or generate worksheets that connect sound, meaning, and spelling.

If you want a fuller walkthrough with screenshots, open the Word Garden user guide on GitHub.