Homework, but it plays like a game

Practice Arcade

Four games for what your kid is working on right now — this week's vocabulary words, the times tables, the patterns behind both, and a mystery you solve by reading carefully — plus Word Lab for your own lists. Sign in once and your stars follow you between games, and to any device.

Reading · Module 3

Civic Words Quest

Twelve levels on this week's vocabulary list, with every clue read out loud.

  • Flip cards, quizzes, matching and spelling
  • Three running-and-jumping levels
  • A song for the whole word list
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Math · Times tables

Times Tamers

Answer times tables to power up your creature and win the arena.

  • Ten arenas, then the champion
  • Catch a new creature every win
  • Tricky facts come back more often
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Thinking · patterns

Pattern Pop

Spot what comes next in shapes, colors and numbers.

  • Six kinds of puzzle, made fresh every round
  • Repeating, growing, odd-one-out, analogies
  • The reasoning the big tests actually measure
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Reading · detective

Glitch Patrol

One school bot has a glitch. Read the clues, rule out the rest, patch the right one.

  • Twelve rooms to search before the battery dies
  • Scan a bot, read its log, answer to earn a clue
  • Rookie, Detective or Chief: bots run from you on the hard ones
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For grown-ups · your own lists

Word Lab

Paste this week's spelling or vocabulary list and it turns into practice in the games.

  • One word and its meaning per line, copied from anywhere
  • Plays in Civic Words Quest and Glitch Patrol
  • Save it on this device, or for the whole class
Open Word Lab →
1Pick a gameThey all work on a phone, a tablet or a laptop, and keep working offline.
2Sign in onceA class code, a nickname and a 4-number PIN. No email, no last name.
3Stars follow youStart on a school Chromebook, finish at home. Same stars either way.

Nothing is collected but a nickname and a star count. Word Lab → Teacher view →