Endless Wordplay  helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

Focus: Getting started and then maintaining attention and effort to tasks.

Each activity in the Endless Wordplay app is helping your child build up their focusing skills. The dragging and dropping of letters to form a word or the rhyming of three different words requires their attention for a short, sustained period of time. As the child selects different areas of the map, they will be asked to focus for different lengths of time depending on the difficulty of the words. Endless Wordplay provides the scaffolding needed to help your child work towards focusing for longer periods of time. 

Working Memory: Recalling and retaining information in our minds while working.

Recalling the pronunciation of letters and the spelling of words while trying to drag and drop individual letters requires our working memory skills. Young children are practicing their working memory when they drag and drop letters to form words and rhyming lists and hear the letter pronunciation as they go along. When they are forming words by dragging and dropping letters, they are also hearing the pronunciation of the letter while seeing it, building up their working memory for recognizing and using them in future word creation.