Word Munchers
Encyclopedia
Word Munchers is an educational
/edutainment
computer game in the Munchers
series produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) for several operating system
s. Designed to teach basic grammar skills, it was popular among American
schoolchildren in the 1980s and 1990s. Related to the game Number Munchers
, it was a teaching aid widely used in schools.
Gameplay was essentially that of the other Munchers games. Specific to Word Munchers were the modes of play, which includes parts of speech such as verb
s or adjective
s.
Teachers had the options to select the vowel sounds and how difficult the word sets would be, such as whether or not to include words that break pronunciation rules.
To access administration/teachers options in most MECC titles, use Ctrl+A on the menu screen.
Educational game
Educational games are games that have been designed to teach people about a certain subject, expand concepts, reinforce development, understand an historical event or culture, or assist them in learning a skill as they play...
/edutainment
Edutainment
Edutainment is a form of entertainment designed to educate as well as to amuse.-Overview:...
computer game in the Munchers
Munchers
Munchers was a series of educational/edutainment computer games produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium for several operating systems. They were popular among American schoolchildren in the 1980s and 1990s and were the recipients of several awards...
series produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) for several operating system
Operating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
s. Designed to teach basic grammar skills, it was popular among American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
schoolchildren in the 1980s and 1990s. Related to the game Number Munchers
Number Munchers
Number Munchers is an educational/edutainment computer game in the Munchers series produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium for several operating systems. Designed to teach basic math skills, it was popular among American school children in the 1980s and 1990s and was the...
, it was a teaching aid widely used in schools.
Gameplay was essentially that of the other Munchers games. Specific to Word Munchers were the modes of play, which includes parts of speech such as verb
Verb
A verb, from the Latin verbum meaning word, is a word that in syntax conveys an action , or a state of being . In the usual description of English, the basic form, with or without the particle to, is the infinitive...
s or adjective
Adjective
In grammar, an adjective is a 'describing' word; the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified....
s.
Teachers had the options to select the vowel sounds and how difficult the word sets would be, such as whether or not to include words that break pronunciation rules.
To access administration/teachers options in most MECC titles, use Ctrl+A on the menu screen.