We've made a lot of changes to Whizzimo over the last few weeks.  Enjoy!

• ​You can now quickly switch between Lesson Plans and Lesson Plan Steps when using our Lesson Plan functionality.
• We've added lots of new prefix, suffix, and roots tiles to the Tile Drawer.  Check them out and let us know if there are any other tiles that you'd like for us to add.
• The Blackboard now has an additional 10 columns and 5 rows to accommodate users who are using lots of affix tiles.

 Here's a video update of the changes.

We're excited to announce our most recent updates.  The larger changes are listed below, followed by the smaller updates. And here's a video update of the most important changes.

We've been hard at work incorporating user feedback.  Here are the latest updates that we released on 4/18:

• Pdfs, sentences, sentence parts, and passages can now be shared between users when workbooks are shared.
• Users can now search their own libraries for specific workbooks based on the workbooks' titles.

We quietly released these features today, and we'll announce them in our next batch up updates.

• The maximum number of words in an activity has been raised to 50.
• In the flashcard view, one syllable words do not show the syllable view and multisyllabic words no longer show the onset/rime view.
• Users can now search the Whizzimo Collection for specific concepts based on the workbooks' titles.

To help you save even more time, we've added the following functionality to Whizzimo:

• Courses, Lesson Plans, and Lesson Plan steps can now be copied and reordered.  This includes the ability to save Lesson Plans for reuse as templates.
• Lesson Plan steps can be renamed.
• For Demo users
  • The time limit has been removed from the Blackboard.
  • The upgrade screen for all other available activities has been raised to 5 minutes.

Happy Teaching!

We are proud to announce that we are now official partners with Sarah's First Grade Snippets.  Sarah Paul is a reading teacher who loves creating and finding engaging activities to get students excited about learning.  We highly recommend subscribing to her blog, Sarah's First Grade Snippets, where she shares helpful tips and materials.  

​Happy Teaching!

We're very excited to announce that we have become official partners of The Literacy Nest!

One of our goals in 2016 is to start partnering with, and recommending, other folks who are doing work that we admire.  We have been doing this informally for years, but now we're just formalizing the process.  

The thing we like the most about The Literacy Nest is that Emily Gibbons (the site's founder) has put in lots of hours creating useful materials, including controlled passages, which we know can take hours and days to create.  

Please visit Emily's TeachersPayTeachers site and her blog to find useful materials.

Happy Teaching!

​Here’s another video update with more details about our recent updates. This video covers smaller tweaks to the program like the new typing tool and the ability to use prefixes and suffixes in the spelling activity.

​Happy Teaching!

​We just released some exciting new functionality for you, including:

• Nonsense Words – We’ve added over 70,000 nonsense words to the Whizzimo Database.
• Sentence, Passage, and .Pdf activities – 3 new activities designed to save you even more time.
• Workbook Tiles – You now have a separate, automatically generated workbook for every single workbook in your library.

We recorded a quick overview of the updates.  
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​Happy Teaching!

Great news!

​The best wordlist builder just got better with the addition of the following 5 new types of searches: 

1. Grapheme Searches
2. Morphology Searches
3. Phoneme Searches
4. Syllabication Searches
5. “Quick” Searches

Grapheme Searches – Search for specific graphemes based on their location in the words.  There are four filters of this type: 

• First Grapheme
• Last Grapheme
• Any Grapheme
• Does Not Contain Grapheme

Morphology Searches – Search for specific prefixes and suffixes in words:  There are two filters of this type: 

• Prefixes
• Suffixes

Phoneme Searches – Identify the number of sounds that you’d like to have in each word.  This is useful because some words have more letters than sounds.  For example, the word ‘time’ has 4 letters from only 3 sounds. There is one filter of this type:

• Number of Sounds

Syllabication Searches – Find words based on specific syllable division rules.  This search is especially powerful because finding controlled wordlists based on syllabication can be very time consuming.  There is one filter of this type: 

• Syllable Division

Quick Searches – Include or Exclude Words based on specific broad categories. For example, you can decide that a wordlist needs to include or exclude words with digraphs.  There are two filters of this type: 

• Quick Exclude
• Quick Include

Happy Teaching!