Membership

Empowering Literacy Intervention from Foundations to Advanced Morphology

Word Cracking provides the tools, resources, and training you need to teach literacy with confidence.

From essential phonics to advanced morphology, Word Cracking supports educators & parents, whether you’re supplementing an existing program or building a complete literacy intervention journey.

Now includes FREE access to our morphology training course! (normally $295)

Morphology Training Course Content

Membership options

AU$ 144 Yearly

Word Cracking Software
Morphology Training Course
Literacy Support Kit
Access to online spinners and games
Over 400 worksheets and growing!
Downloadable templates
Playberry T3 & Sounds Write Algnment

AU$ 495 Yearly

Word Cracking Software
Morphology Training Course
Literacy Support Kit
Access for up to 20 teachers
Access to online games and spinners
Over 400 worksheets and growing!
Downloadable templates
Playberry T3 & Sounds Write Algnment

*All prices in Australian dollars and include tax where applicable.

Use the Word Cracker to teach morphology

Comprehensive Morphology training Course included

Normally $295 - Now free for members

The course assumes you are a beginner and takes you step-by-step, including what morphology is, why it is so important and how to teach it in the classroom (Tier 1 & 2) and intervention settings (Tier 3).

This training course aims to provide participants with an understanding of what morphology is and how to teach it. It includes detailed information about the rules of how words are formed, how they function, and why this improves vocabulary, reading and comprehension skills.

Whole school consistency

Every teacher reinforcing the same ideas and concepts.

Students need high-quality, consistent instruction across the board. Word Cracker allows them to move from teacher to teacher, subject to subject and year to year without having to learn new terminology and meta language.

Complex spelling made easy

Instant patterning, definitions and text to voice at your fingertips.

It is difficult to think on your feet and recall the meaning of every morpheme, or pattern a word, while trying to manage a class and deal with random questions!

Imagine having every morpheme definition at your fingertips or automatically detecting safe and dangerous end patterns. Word cracker lets you do this with the click of a button.

Use the Literacy Support Kit to suppliment your intervention

Save time

Hundreds of worksheets and time saving templates

As an educator, your time is valuable. We’ve crafted a ready-to-use material suite that requires no additional preparation—print and teach. These resources are structured to maximize classroom efficiency, allowing you to focus on delivering high-quality instruction rather than spending countless hours creating materials from scratch.

Handwriting Mastery Tools

Support students that struggle and give them success!

Strong handwriting skills are essential for literacy, and our resources are designed to develop these skills step by step. We offer a range of activities and worksheets that cater to students at different stages of handwriting development.

Letter Stroke Sheets (pre-writing skills)
Letter Introduction Sheets
Letter Challenge Sheets
Chunk Maze Worksheets

Phoneme Blending and Fluency Building

For students who struggle with blending phonemes into words.

Onset and Rime Activities: These activities help students blend phonemes more efficiently, moving from slow, segmented reading (like p-e-n) to fluid word recognition (pen). By repeatedly practicing with specific chunks, students quickly improve their fluency.
Chunk Tracking Sheets: These sheets allow students to practice recognizing and blending specific chunks (e.g., ‘en’, ‘it’, ‘end’). The tracking process is designed to build speed and accuracy, which are essential for fluent reading.

High-Frequency Word Mastery

A structured approach to mastering these words, ensuring students can recognize and spell them with confidence.

High-frequency words (HF words) can be tricky for students, especially when they don’t follow standard phonetic rules. Our resources offer a structured approach to mastering these words, ensuring students can recognize and spell them with confidence.

HF Word Worksheets: These worksheets provide practice in tracing, copying, and dictating high-frequency words. The activities are designed to reinforce the correct spelling and usage of these words, making them easier for students to recall.
HF Word Games: Learning is more effective when it’s fun, which is why we’ve included engaging games like Chunky Pig and Snakes and Ladders. These games reinforce high-frequency words and phonetic chunks in an enjoyable, low-pressure environment, encouraging students to practice without feeling overwhelmed.

Simplified reading sheets & cloze sheets

As students build their phonemic knowledge, reading material should be provided at a level where they can experience mastery.

We have included reading sheets and cloze activities for initial code [a-z] with a choice of 2 levels. The blue level is for students who need to build fluency with CVC reading. The green level is for students who are able to tackle words which are ccvc or ccvcc.

Simplified Reading sheets: Each sheet contains words and sentences to practise reading with a particular phoneme. Repeated reading [3 x] is encouraged.
Cloze activities: From the earliest stages, we want our students to be reading for meaning. We have provided simple cloze activities to enhance their reading practice.

Included in your membership

Morphology Training Course

A comprehensive introduction to morphology

Step-by-step guidance for teaching morphemes

Strategies for integrating morphology into phonics instruction

Understanding and teaching morphemes for vocabulary and comprehension

Self-paced modules for flexible learning

Practical application exercises and case studies

Certificate for PD

Word Cracker Software

Interactive Word Cracker with hundreds of inbuilt morphemes, presets and matrices

28 lesson presets

The ability to create and save custom presets

Safe and dangerous word patterns indicator

Built-in morpheme definitions

Text-to-voice feature for morphemes and custom words

Access to new exciting features when they are available

Classroom Lesson plans

A comprehensive sequence for teaching suffixing

25 Lesson plans for whole-class instruction

7 step spelling rule sequence

11 suffixing lessons

7 prefix lessons

Lesson presets, including suggested bases and roots for each teaching point

Classroom vocabulary building exercises

Downloadable templates

Playberry™ Tier 3 intervention integration

Playberry™ spelling rules chart

Playberry™ teaching point references

Playberry™ modification suggestions

Playberry™ sequence built into lesson presets

Access to Word Cracker Teachers facebook group

Intervention Worksheets & Templates

Screening and diagnostic tools

Step-by-step handwriting instruction

Fluency development and reading sheets

High-frequency word sequence and worksheets

Fine-grained phonics instruction

Game templates and online games

More worksheets every week!

What our users say

The online Word Cracker has been useful, particularly when teaching to the whole class.

As a Year One teacher, it has been a tool which I have used as a part of my literacy routine to explicitly introduce morphology at a foundational level.

The beauty of the online wordcracker is that it is easy to use and quick to access using IWB. The wordcracker lines up with the wordcracker training and resource book allowing me to use it to explicitly teach both morphology and relative spelling rules to the whole class with ease.

The pre-set board setups have been fantastic as it allows me to quickly setup the board ready to teach a given spelling rule for example dropping the e when adding a vowel suffix. Not only has this been time saving for me as a teacher but also it allows for quick review of rules taught.

The students love the online wordcracker and even in a Year One classroom. We often find ourselves exploring roots and their morphology and how adding different suffixes and prefixes can make multiple different words.

I am currently building this into my explicit literacy block and the wordcracker means that I can access some morphology quickly using a familiar resource (the wordcracker). This means I can quickly expose students to new learning and reveiw this through the week which I have found has been the most effective way of addressing morphology at a foundation level.

Jared Centenera, Saint Ignatius College, South Australia

This year was an amazing one working with my Year 2s who love the Word Cracker sessions in our Daily Review.

We are an MSL school and we also incorporate other ways of teaching Reading and Writing. The students are using their learnt MSL skills and applying these when using prefixes, suffixes and base words. I have been including Word Cracker in our lessons predominately for exposure and the children always want to learn more about prefixes and suffixes they have not learnt yet.

For example, one of our Words of the Day was ‘grace’. The students then wanted to workshop how to separate the part of the word for graceful and gracefully and then came up with ungraceful, and ungracefully, and it even extended to using -ness. This then went off on a tangent to ‘messy, busy’ and they remembered when we incidentally learned about dropping the y to add /i/ to add -ness when we had these as irregular words.

They have become stronger readers and spellers as they have been using the Word Cracker PD. It is such a valuable resource, even at this younger level. I ended up taking the middle primary Word Cracker whiteboards and was using them with the Year 2s.

Elenor Pletsias, Oakleigh Primary School, South Australia