What you can do in WordRunner

Practice

Practise the words your class or reading pack sets, and the ones you save yourself. Words you have studied come back for review.

After a practice round, look back over your words, with synonyms and other details where we have them.

You can also pick one kind of practice for your class or reading-pack words from your dashboard: Gap Analysis, where you fill in the missing word, or Prove You Can Use Them, where you write a sentence with each word and AI marks it, paid for with in-app credits. In Gap Analysis, AI writes the sentences, and a new one can cost in-app credits too.

Your dashboard also leads to Specialist Modules: more exercises, such as Grammar Practice, Reading Comprehension and Paragraph Cohesion. AI marks every Reading Comprehension answer and some answers in the other two, paid for with in-app credits.

My Lexi

My Lexi is your own word collection. Search for a word, save it and, where we have a recording, hear how it's said. You can open free shared notes on it, written by AI, such as similar words, opposites and example sentences, where we have them. My Lexi holds 50 words free. More space costs in-app credits or XP (points you earn, for example for right answers).

For some words that show no notes yet, you can order deeper notes written by AI. These cover things such as where the word comes from and the words it's often used with. They're paid for with in-app credits, and you see the price before you choose. You get them straight away. A member of the WordRunner team then checks them, and approves, corrects or removes them. Some of the notes they approve or correct, such as the example sentence and the words it's often used with, can then be shown free to other learners who save the same word.

If you're under 16 in the EU, the UK or Switzerland, you'll need a parent's permission to order deeper notes.

The reader

Read Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Hound of the Baskervilles and A Scandal in Bohemia in the app. Tap any word to look up its meaning. It's free. From there you can see any other meanings, save it to My Lexi and, where we have a recording, hear it.

These books come in free reading packs: add the ones you want, then switch between them on your dashboard.

Planned next: The Sign of Four and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Highlights mark the figurative devices in books where we have them, with a guide to each chapter. You can change the text size, the font (including a dyslexia-friendly one) and the theme.

Audio

Your class's study cards, in the Library, can come with audio: audio logs, and audio summaries made by AI. The audio player plays both and keeps playing as you move between pages. It pauses while you read a book. Playing is free.