Word World

Word World is an animated television show that currently airs on PBS. This show follows the adventure of Dog and his friends, who include Pig, Frog, Shark, Duck, Sheep, Bear, Ant, and Bug. All of the story lines have the characters needing something and finding the letters for the item they need and when put together, the letters become the object. Also, the characters, while looking like the animals that they are, are comprised of the letters that make up their names. This gives young toddlers and preschoolers an association of a bear with the letters B-E-A-R. This show also explores sounds that letters make like S-H and O-O. Another thing that this show does is change words from one to another using as little as one letter. In one episode Ant wants to be bigger so his friends add a G-I to the beginning of his name and he becomes a Giant Ant. This show introduces children to the letters, associates words with what the object the word represents looks like, and introduces phonetics.  This show is on PBS daily and also available on DVD, it is not available online for streaming.


Here is a clip from the show. 

Here is a link to the PBS Word World site: http://pbskids.org/wordworld/
This is the link to another Word World site: http://www.wordworld.com/

Word World [Television series]. (n.d.). PBS.