Elementary students learn to navigate dictionaries with confidence while having fun learning new words through these games.

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or grade level. Their accuracy is getting better too: One student went from getting 47% of words correct in reading tests to 60% — not yet grade standard, but enormously encouraging growth ...

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Its editors consider thousands of new word suggestions each year. These come from a variety of sources, including its editors' own reading, crowdsourcing appeals, and analysis of language databases.