Wild card search Did you know that Wordsmyth’s dictionary search box permits the use of wild card symbols? The question mark (?) and the asterisk (*)—these unassuming symbols are surprisingly powerful, as they can represent any letter or string of letters in a word. Understanding how to use them will increase your ability to … Read more
Since last year’s release of Teacher Tools, the key component of our Educational Group Subscription, we have received a good deal of constructive feedback as well as questions about the new features. We have collected the most frequently asked questions to help you get started with Teacher Tools this new school year. Teacher Tools FAQ … Read more
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 students get a clear and basic understanding of concepts such as noun, adjective, verb, or adverb. Here is a quick peek: The full … Read more
Wordsmyth dictionaries have been updated! Wordsmyth updates its dictionaries every year with new entries, additional example sentences for existing entries, new images, and additional animations. This year we’ve also continued to expand our coverage of phrasal verbs and idioms in our dictionaries, and these improvements will be reflected in this update. Subscribe to get access … Read more
In response to requests from long-time users, we are in the process of extending the full print functionality of our legacy activities to our new Vocabulary Center activities. The first activity we have extended the functionality to is Multiple Choice. Now if you click on the print button inside the Multiple Choice activity, you will … Read more
Word of the Year 2022 Word lovers, vocabulary learners, teachers and students: it is time to start thinking about the Word of the Year 2022! Write a short essay reflecting on the Year of 2022. After writing, choose the word that you feel is most key to your essay. It will be your word of … Read more
After a year of beta testing, Teacher Tools is now officially released on all Wordsmyth sites including kids.wordsmyth.
With a few simple steps, teachers will be able to use their current vocabulary wordlists to create lessons, assign them to their students, and review reports to monitor their students’ performance and vocabulary growth.
• New! Wordsmyth’s Spelling activity for assessment
• Database update with newly added headwords, phrases, images, and animations
• Idiomatic phrases in Wordsmyth dictionaries
Word of the year 2021 Wordsmyth would like to invite you to reflect on this year and consider a word that has most drawn our society’s attention to something important, something that links this past year with the future. Please tell us what significance this word has had in your life, through personal experience or … Read more
• Wordsmyth Word Parts: expanding vocabulary with knowledge of prefixes, roots, and suffixes
• Interactive maps in WILD
• Word Explorer: writing support feature in our Children’s Dictionary
