Scholastic has a nice, free vocabulary resource available on the Web: Word Wizard Dictionary. The interactive dictionary is powered by Wordsmyth and had every word that I entered. Some, but unfortunately not the majority, of the words that I viewed had pictures or videos linked to them. I thought that the definitions were kid-friendly as well. In addition to the dictionary, Scholastic also provides mini-dictionary and quizz creation tools. Very handy for teachers. The site has good advice and background information about vocabulary instruction, teacher guides, and essential vocabulary lists. Good stuff. I'd love to see more illustrations, photographs, and videos, and especially would like ASL video to accompany each word. I think that they might also include age-appropriate book titles which include the word. Come to think of it, I have several more ideas for them...maybe Scholastic needs to hire me. :) Or maybe my students, who have an illustrated dictionary blog of their own.
Update: Scholastic has discontinued the Word Wizard Dictionary. Boo. Hoo.
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