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Word Parts I: A handy list for introducing Greek and Latin roots to your students

Posted on October 20, 2021December 26, 2022 by Wordsmyth

As educators, we are all aware that learning words parts, particularly Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes can help students guess the meaning of new words as well as help them…

WILD for PreK-2 Vocabulary learning

Posted on August 12, 2021November 25, 2024 by Robert Parks

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…

WILD Word Learner App

Posted on July 24, 2021September 20, 2022 by Wordsmyth

WILD Word Learner is a companion app to the Wordsmyth Illustrated Learner’s Dictionary (WILD). This educational game app gives young learners the opportunity to learn close to 1000 carefully selected words from WILD.  These words are distributed over twelve kid-friendly topics and nearly 200 wordlists and make a delightful introduction to the world of English words.

Word Explorer: Explore the world of the words

Posted on October 24, 2020August 29, 2024 by Wordsmyth

Unique to our Children’s Dictionary Suite is the Word Explorer:  a word-finding and knowledge-exploration feature. It is an index of related words spread throughout the dictionaries that allows a child to find…

Animated vocabulary instruction for kids!

Posted on May 8, 2020May 28, 2020 by Wordsmyth

Having trouble making basic, essential concepts clear to your young students? WILD animations can help! In addition to thousands of colorful static images created by our artists, the Wordsmyth Illustrated Learner’s Dictionary…

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