Review for Wordtoons

Being a homeschooling mom, I occasionally have the opportunity to receive freebies in exchange for a review. The most recent freebie that I was sent was Wordtoons. This particular product is the brain child of Wayne Logue. Wayne has been a cartoonist/illustrator for almost 2 decades and is now studying for his BA in Linguistics English Language Teaching and Education....ah, a teacher in training creating a tool to teach with, I LOVE it!!!

I was super excited to receive a sample of Wordtoons in my e-mail inbox because The Risk-Taker loves to draw. In fact, I find doodles of all different persuasions in the margins of his schoolwork when I am grading it. Drawing is his form of self-expression, and I was anxious to let him loose with this project.

The concept behind Wordtoons is simple.The program takes words and turns them into that particular object. For instance, DOG becomes:

Can you find the letters in the drawing? AMAZING!!!

There are many other words to explore and a few uppercase letters that turn into objects/animals as well. The review from The Risk-Taker was that: "This is the coolest schoolwork I've done all year!"   I now find doodles of "dog" and "boy" all over my whiteboards...I think these are the easiest and fastest for him to draw.

As an added perk, The Explorer (almost 5) is completely drawn in by the process (pun intended) and is learning more spelling due to this program. His thoughts on it were: "I LOVE this!".

I give Wordtoons two thumbs way up and went to the site to buy the full version. I am very anxious to see what Wayne has on the horizon for us!!