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Our Children's Dictionaries
With our newly released Elementary Dictionary, Wordsmyth Kids proudly provides a complete multi-level dictionary system to support children of all ages, grade levels, and capabilities.
For K-2nd Grade
Wordsmyth Illustrated Learner's Dictionary (WILD) is an interactive multimedia environment for learning about words and the world. More than a dictionary, WILD is an interactive learning environment, in which young learners can explore words in an easily navigable visual world with full audio support.
For 3rd-5th and 6-8th Grades
The Wordsmyth Word Explorer Children's Dictionary Suite is a smart dictionary system that not only allows students to set a default that generally meets their current vocabulary level, but lets them move up and down smoothly among dictionary levels so that they may see definitions for a particular word at a level that gives them exactly what they need for a better or more complete understanding.
- The Elementary Children's Dictionary (for grades 3-5) defines words in a simple, full-sentence style that explains word meaning to kids. It's full of easy-to-understand definitions, child-friendly example sentences, illustrations, and photos.
- The Intermediate Children's Dictionary (for grades 6-8), with over 35,000 entries, covers even more of the most important words that children need to know, with support for a wide range of topics from science and social studies to emotions and everyday life.
- The Wordsmyth Advanced Dictionary includes 100,000 entries. If a word is not found in either of the Children's dictionaries, the entry from the Advanced Dictionary will become available, regardless of the default level chosen for the Children's Suite. Inappropriate entries for children are blocked by the Parental Filter.
For individual adult users, the Wordsmyth Comprehensive Dictionary website, which includes the Advanced Dictionary as a default, offers resources for adults from high school age and up as well as for older second language learners. If you are a self-motivated learner, subscribe to Wordsmyth to get access to the full set of learning features and tools that it offers. The Children's Dictionary Suite is also available to all learners.
To keep young learners engaged and motivated, Wordsmyth Kids has designed a series of vocabulary activities. These activities are organized systematically to create a learning path.
- Study: Teachers create a list of words in connection with their students' interests or goals. Students study with flash cards, glossary maker, or vocabulary notebook.
- Play: Learners engage in fun games such as Tic Tac Toe, Guess What, or Crosswords.
- Assess: Students' vocabulary growth is tested with Multiple Choice, Fill-in-the blank, Matching, or Spelling Bee.
The Wordsmyth Vocabulary Inventory (WVI) provides pre-made wordlists appropriate for each grade band. These are ready to be used in any activity at anytime.
- WVI level 1 for grades K-2
- WVI level 2 for grades 3-5
- WVI level 3 for grades 6-8
- WVI levels 4 & 5 for grades 9-12 and up
Wordsmyth Kids offers Wordlist Maker to allow educators to set up their own lessons using specific wordlists of their own creation and then share these lessons with their students.
There are two list-creation options:
- For vocabulary learning: Teachers or individual learners can create a "Precise list" created from a list of words that are of interest for teaching or studying.
- For reading support: "Text analysis" automatically extracts the best academic vocabulary from any text and generates a wordlist with one click of a button.
After making the lists, teachers can share them with their students directly, or create a vocabulary lesson, assign it to their class, and keep track of their vocabulary growth with reports using Teacher Tools.
Educational group subscription
The Wordsmyth Educational Group Subscription is designed for educators to manage and interact with their students using Teacher Tools. These tools allow teachers to set up their classes, create lessons with desired wordlists, and monitor their students' vocabulary learning.
In just three easy steps, teachers and students will have full access to all Wordsmyth dictionaries and Wordsmyth Vocabulary Center through a unique School URL. Students use a simple login in order to access Teacher Tools using the URL, but only a simple identifier, such as their first name or initials, is required so that their teacher may recognize them. Wordsmyth never collects personal information from students. (For younger students using WILD, no login is required at all.) With an Educational Group subscription, teachers will find it rewarding to watch their students expand their vocabulary and their understanding of the world around them.