[CHASE] 8-11 yrs. (Talent to look 9). Chase is a fantastic detective, but is also goofy funny, visually oriented, and, like the name suggests, loves the “chase”. People tend to underestimate this investigator, but Chase often notices things like a chocolate stain when someone said they didn’t like chocolate or a squiggle of icing that turns out to be the antonym of the word they’re tracking. Chase is also great with computers and incredibly artistic. A graphic note taker Chase loves to draw, has a great eye for details, is a big fan of the “zoom in” function, and really enjoys creating animated re-enactments of Word Mysteries. LEAD

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Storyline: Wordsville is a series for kids that follows 9-year-old best friends Sage and Chase as they solve weird and wacky word mysteries in the town of Wordsville. This detective procedural takes place entirely on webcam and smartphone, and each episode features a case rooted in a literacy lesson. Each mystery introduces at least one new vocabulary word and teaches the importance of deducing the who, what, where, when, why and how at the core of every story. This whodunnit also invites viewers to figure out the culprit along with our crafty kid-detectives.

Wordsville is a town populated entirely by kids and it’s a place where words matter. A lot. Every kid citizen has a special connection to words. And that means that if something happens to a word, there are far-reaching consequences. If the Main Street Baker bakes delicious donuts and they all mysteriously disappear, nothing else in Wordsville can taste good until they are returned. If the Town Doctor’s soothing medication gets swiped, the whole town gets uncontrollably itchy until the medicine-napper is uncovered. If the Local Scientist does an experiment with electricity and all the lights in town go out, they won’t come back on until the experiment wrecker is revealed. In each crime, the episodic word disappears and can’t return until the mystery is solved. The impact of the missing word is felt all over town. Luckily, best friends and partners Sage and Chase are on the case and run the only detective agency in town. These tech-savvy sleuths solve mysteries entirely virtually because their reading, listening and digital literacy skills are their greatest strengths. Sage and Chase always catch their culprit and make sure everything is right with the word.