New literacy competition Word Mania to be launched to UK schools in 2017

WOOLWICH, U.K. - Jan. 4, 2017 - PRLog -- Word Mania, a revolutionary literacy competition which has been a huge success around the world, is coming to schools in the United Kingdom in January 2017. Schools can enrol in the annual competition, which has £20,000 worth of prizes up for grabs for winning schools.

Created by global online learning platform LiteracyPlanet, Word Mania was developed to help build children's literacy skills by making learning fun. The game is an annual competition and awards scores to participants based on the number of words built along with their size and difficulty. Playing Word Mania helps children pupils master many different aspects of literacy including phonemes, morphemes, spelling, word recognition, vocabulary and word knowledge. Students and schools will be able to compete with each other once registered – and students can start practicing online before the competition starts.

"We are very excited about the launch of Word Mania in the UK," said LiteracyPlanet Marketing Director, James Harvey-Fiander. "There has already been a high level of interest from UK schools – many of them having seen the success in Australia – who are eager for the competition to be available to their students. The word building in Word Mania has been shown to be critical in helping children improve their literacy skills, and we have no doubt that students in the United Kingdom are going to love competing with their friends and other schools to win their school a share of the prizes."

The word-building competition has already become a hit with schools and students in Australia since its launch there four years ago. This year, 260,000 Australian students across 2,500 schools spent nine million minutes using Word Mania, building 69 million words and participating in more than 17 years' worth of literacy learning in the few weeks that the competition took place.

Word Mania was developed by educators for schools and students and is aligned to the UK Curriculums. The competition for students from Year 1 to 9, as well as older students in many cases and is adaptable for all abilities.

Word Mania's creator LiteracyPlanet is a leading online programme designed to improve literacy skills. The global online resource consists of more than 15,000 game-based exercises; each has been developed to give students a new way of learning literacy skills - through interactivity and rewarding success. LiteracyPlanet is used by parents and teachers around the world and is fully aligned with the National Curriculum in the United Kingdom.

To register now to take part in Word Mania, please visit:  https://www.wordmania.co.uk/. Schools can download free resources including tools to encourage students to practice for the start of the competition by visiting the website. You can play a demonstration of Word Mania directly from the homepage of the website.

The competition will start 23 January and will last for two weeks before winning schools and students are announced and awarded their prizes.