Games TO train deep reading

TEXTERMINATORS
grammarterminology

Zap your way through grammatical terminology until the names for word classes stick. Play faster, harder rounds, and beat your high scores.

KS3-KS5
MEGAMORPH
word-buildingvocabulary

Build on root words by dragging morpheme tiles: prefixes, suffixes, compounds and blends. What's the biggest word you can put together?

KS3-KS5
SPEED READER
recognitionattention

Sharpen up the speed and accuracy of your reading by targeting specific details. Work out what matters, then why or how.

KS3-KS5
INFER-RED
vocabularyinference

Work on your vocab by tackling unfamiliar words: develop skills for inferring meaning from contexts, familiar features, and other ways a word might be used.

KS3-KS5
SUBTEXT
close readingevidence

Read in between the lines of a text, then take a deeper dive. What shows more than it tells? Where is your evidence? What can re-reading give you?

KS3-KS5
WHODUNNIT?
comparisonstyleevidence

Expert reading is detective work, your clues are just the words. Study the stylistic fingerprints, assemble the evidence, then make your accusation.

KS4-KS5
NEW AFFECTONAUT
affectclose reading

Fly through a poem as it scrolls towards you, moving as the poem moves you. What's the tone - light or dark, head or heart? Reading here is feeling.

KS3-KS5
NEW EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER
vocabularyaffect

Surge through a range of moods, responding to the mixed emotions that come your way. How you move depends on how strongly the word moves you!

KS3-KS5
NEW FLEXICALS
vocabularypolysemy

Create 'semantic chains' by linking words through possible meanings, then work your way back before the cable runs out. 

KS3-KS5

The games have colour-coded tabs that show what each game aims to train, such as vocabulary deep reading forensic analysis affect (reading with feeling). To find out more about a game, just click on it, read, and play.

COMING SOON: Selecting texts. The games come with texts to explore, but our aim is to keep the teacher in control. That means pasting in the text your class is studying, and letting the game draft questions and tasks the teacher can check and edit before any pupil plays. Keep an eye out for the upgrade!

Who we are

"Our games are all about getting young people thinking more deeply about language. Then getting them reading - and reading more closely. Because deep reading demands subtle thinking and real feeling. And that, we hope, gives us a deeper engagement with the world, and a clearer sense not just of  ourselves, but of the people and the world around us too."

The Phatiks idea.