The word-building tool your phonics block is missing
Build words sound by sound, model blending in real time, and mark the tricky parts in heart words.
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Thousands of teachers love Word Builder.
You've just seen what Word Builder can do. Here's why teachers keep coming back to it.
Teach phonics explicitly
Make sound boxes, graphemes, and tricky parts visible so students can break apart words step by step.
Use it across the day
Model in whole class lessons, revisit in small groups, or use it as part of intervention and review.
Reduce prep without reducing quality
Jump straight into purposeful practice instead of building slides and manipulatives from scratch every time.
If Word Builder clicks, these tools usually do too
Word Builder is just one part of the literacy toolkit inside The Hive. Teachers use many digital teaching tools to cover phonics, spelling, vocabulary, sentence-work and more. Here's just a few...
Decodable Words, Images & Sentences
Once students can build words, move them into connected reading practice. Same platform, no extra prep.
Syllable Mapper
Take word analysis further and map syllable types when students are ready to look at bigger words.
Word of the Day
A quick daily routine for vocabulary, morphology, and spelling rules that takes zero setup.
Syllable Sorter
Help students compare spelling patterns and syllable types as they start noticing how words are structured.
Four in a Roll
Extra practice without the busywork. Students get repeated retrieval in a format they actually enjoy.
Roll a Silly Sentence
A fun way to take phonics into sentence-level work. Playful, but still purposeful.
Unlock more with multiple tools at once
Drop Word Builder into a slide deck, pair it with other teaching tools, annotate while you teach, and keep your lesson sequence moving.
Combine
Add Word Builder, decodable sentences, and a timer to the same slide deck so your phonics block flows without switching tabs.
Annotate
Annotate directly on any app while you teach. Circle a grapheme, underline a tricky part, model your thinking live.
Progress
Build a lesson sequence that moves from explicit teaching to practice to review, all in one place.
Word Builder is targeted. The Hive is your whole teaching day.
Start with the phonics tool that brought you here, then explore the rest of the platform. The Hive is one seamless digital teaching ecosystem for literacy, numeracy, classroom management and everything in between.
Literacy tools
Phonics, spelling, reading, handwriting, vocabulary. All your literacy teaching tools in one place, built to work together.
Numeracy tools
Ten frames, place value mats, fractions, number lines, base ten blocks. Visual maths tools ready to use without building anything from scratch.
Classroom tools
Pickers, timers, noise meter, grouping tools, and a digital whiteboard. The everyday stuff that keeps your classroom running smoothly.
Digital planner & dashboard. Your whole week just got easier.
For many teachers, the real upgrade is not just having better digital teaching tools. It is having one connected place to plan the week, organise teaching, and reduce the mental clutter that comes from scattered systems.
Plan your week with a fully digital planner that links directly to your slides, tools, and resources.
No more switching between tabs to find what you need. Your visual timetable, tools, and lessons are all right there.
Track progress, behaviour, or anything else with customisable tables that live right inside each class.
Teachers stay for more than one tool
Ready to go beyond the demo?
You've seen what Word Builder can do. Start your free trial to use it inside slides, pair it with the rest of the literacy toolkit, and see how much easier teaching feels when everything works from one platform.