Explaining parts of speech for young children The Wordsmyth Illustrated Learner’s Dictionary (WILD) is adding a new collection–Parts of Speech–to its Language collections. With fully animated explanations, now you can help your…
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Parts of Speech explained for grades 3 to 6
“Part of speech” is one of the categories into which words of a language are grouped, according to the way they function in a sentence. Nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections are the major parts of speech in English. This post contains explanations of these eight parts of speech written in simple language for upper elementary students.
School URL and Class URL Explained
With your Group Educational Subscription, Wordsmyth provides 2 services for you: (1) School URL: for example, www.wordsmyth.net/school/your_school_name/ The school URL is an access point for dictionary services for your students. Using this…
Wordsmyth Teachers Guide
Here is a quick overview of Wordsmyth features, including Wordsmyth dictionaries at all levels, vocabulary tools, and teacher tools. This guide can help educators make good use of Wordsmyth dictionaries and tools so that students may be helped to improve their vocabulary as well as their reading and writing skills.
WILD for PreK-2 Vocabulary learning
The Wordsmyth Illustrated Learner’s Dictionary (WILD) is organized into four components that facilitate children’s vocabulary learning in two ways: (a) learning new words for concepts the child already has, and (b) learning…