First 1000 words for young learners Our new educational game app—WILD WORD LEARNER—is now available in Apple’s App Store and in Google Play. Included in the app are close to 1000 carefully selected words from WILD spread over 12 great topics. The app is free with the first 4 topics (over 200 words) preloaded. It’s … Read more
• Get your Teacher Tools ready for the new school year!
• First 1000 words for beginning learners–Introducing WILD Word Learner
• WILD for PreK-2 Vocabulary learning
We want to make the process of using our Teacher Tools as easy as possible. So we have taken two steps to make your life easier. First, we have implemented SAML (Security Assertion Mark-up Language) for schools using this technology for data federation, identity management or single sign-on (SSO).
• Teacher tools beta testing
• New vocabulary words added in our dictionary database
• Word limit in Wordlist Maker has been expanded
Wordsmyth has always been a resource for online learning, but with so many K-12 teachers engaging in online instruction during this difficult time, we would like to offer a guide to Wordsmyth’s plentiful tools that can help out with the challenging task of teaching children remotely. For Grades K-2 WILD, a rich and unique online … Read more
We are proud to announce Wordsmyth Word of the Year 2020, selected by the votes of members of the Wordsmyth community. Here are a selection of the comments from our users who voted for the word social distancing. This is a common theme – what most people must do or do not want to do. … Read more
The Wordsmyth educational mission is to foster awareness of how words work in communication, and our WOTY nominations this year have drawn attention to the way words work in society. This has been such an extraordinary year—bringing many new words and concepts to our attention—that Oxford Dictionaries couldn’t choose one word as their word of … Read more
Everyone can participate – students and teachers, friendship and work groups, and families can all take up the discussion of what words have been most important in 2020.
Working in partnership with the acclaimed ReadWorks reading program, Wordsmyth is powering the new “ReadWorks Vocabulary Widget,” now live at www.readworks.org. The new vocabulary widget is automatically available for students to use during reading on the ReadWorks site. ReadWorks pre-selected vocabulary words appear in bold and in blue in their reading passages, and students can click on … Read more
Yes! As part of our recent update, we’ve adopted a new logo for WILD. In addition to the logo change, we’ve made many improvements to the dictionary that will make it even better at supporting the online education of learners in grades K to 2. We are aware that teaching young children online can be … Read more
