Challenges

Learn about our challenges

Our challenges teach reading, writing, spelling, vocabulary, grammar and punctuation in a variety of fun and effective ways. From multiple choice quizzes, matching and grouping challenges, to short writing pieces (depending on your child’s age), the curriculum challenges take your child through a full reading and writing curriculum. If your child does not score highly on a challenge, the program will re-assign the challenge to your child until they successfully master the required skills and achieve a strong score.

Will’s Quiz Quest

Skills Taught: Reading Comprehension, Spelling, Vocabulary Building, Grammar

A multiple choice quiz, which for 6+ age children may contain reading comprehension tasks and quizzes.

Will's Quiz Quest, a challenge on Night Zookeeper, displayed on laptop screen.

Eek’s Word Code

Skill Taught: Spelling

Rearrange the letters to spell different words. All the word’s meanings have been introduced in earlier challenges and in this challenge children practice spelling those words.

Eek's Word Code, a challenge on Night Zookeeper, displayed on laptop screen.

Sea Lion’s Sentences

Skills Taught: Grammar & Punctuation

Rearrange jumbled up sentences to make complete sentences. Concepts such as where to place punctuation and how to grammatically structure sentences are practiced.

Sea Lion's Sentences, a challenge on Night Zookeeper, displayed on laptop screen.

Maji's Matches

Skill Taught: Vocabulary Building

Children match words or sentences together and practice areas such as antonyms and synonyms or matching rhyming words.

Maji's Matches, a challenge on Night Zookeeper, displayed on laptop screen.

Grudge’s Groups

Skills Taught: Vocabulary Building, Grammar

Assign different words or sentences based on different groups, such as arranging sentences in past, present and future, or into different categories of words.

Grudge's Groups, a challenge on Night Zookeeper, displayed on laptop screen.

Bertie’s Bumbles

Skills Taught: Reading Comprehension, Writing

Children are challenged to write short sentences based on different grammar concepts or vocabulary they have learned, making sure to use the target words they have been given.

Bertie's Bumbles, a challenge on Night Zookeeper, displayed on laptop screen.

Beaver’s Blanks

Skills Taught: Spelling, Grammar & Punctuation

Children fill in the missing part of a sentence, either by selecting the correct word, or by typing it correctly into the missing space.

Beaver's Blanks, a challenge on Night Zookeeper, displayed on laptop screen.

Sam Spies

Skills Taught: Reading comprehension, Grammar & Punctuation

Children read short paragraphs and identify target words in a sentence by selecting them. Used as quick reading comprehension challenges, such as finding all the adjectives.

Sam Spies, a challenge on Night Zookeeper, displayed on laptop screen.

Vincent’s Gallery

Skills Taught: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Building

Primarily for 5-7 year old users, this challenge is image based and challenges the child to choose the correct answer based on the picture.

Vincent's Gallery, a challenge on Night Zookeeper, displayed on laptop screen.

Ninja Naming

Skills Taught: Spelling, Vocabulary Building

Primarily for 5-7 year old users, this challenge asks children to complete the spelling of different words based on the picture. Usually the child will need to type between 1-4 letters and is an introduction to typing.

Ninja Naming, a challenge on Night Zookeeper, displayed on laptop screen.

Star Search

Skills Taught: Spelling, Vocabulary Building

A word search where children must find the target words by selecting them. Reinforces the spelling of vocabulary they have been learning through the curriculum.

Star Search, a challenge on Night Zookeeper, displayed on laptop screen.

Deep Definitions

Skill Taught: Vocabulary Building

Children are given definitions of a word and sample sentences in order to understand its meaning.

Deep Definitions, a challenge on Night Zookeeper, displayed on laptop screen.

Penguin’s Paragraphs

Skill Taught: Reading Comprehension

Children read short stories that have parts of the writing missing that need to be completed. The passages can be both fiction to nonfiction.

Penguin's Paragraphs, a challenge on Night Zookeeper, displayed on laptop screen.

Greedy Guglums

Skills Taught: Vocabulary Building, Grammar

Group different words or sentences based on different categories, such as arranging sentences in past, present and future.

Greedy Guglums, a challenge on Night Zookeeper, displayed on laptop screen.

Riya’s Raps

Skills Taught: Spelling, Vocabulary Building, Grammar

A multiple choice quiz with 4 options that children must try to answer as soon as possible.

Riya's Raps, a challenge on Night Zookeeper, displayed on laptop screen.

Here's an overview of challenges your child will have access to, depending on their grade level:

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