Resources = Useful things and valuable supplies
Curate = Collect
Aligned = Matched Up
Massive = Huge
Cloud Computing = Computers do the work but stored it elsewhere
Alternatives = Other choices
Transformation = Change
National Council of Teachers of English (September 7, 2017)
Student-Created Dictionary with Animations on YouTube
Glossary of Common Science Terms
Rewordify: Takes Difficult Text and Makes It Easier to Understand
The Many Origins of the English Language
Decode teens’ shorthand in the digital world (includes explicit references)
For examples of kid-friendly language definitions to words, link to the picture book, The Fairy Dogfather. Alexandra Day. Green Tiger Press, 2012
Shakespeare Invented 1700 New Words
15 Words You Use Without Realizing They're From Foreign Languages
25 of the New Words Merriam-Webster Is Adding the Dictionary in 2018
The phrase role before rule is a helpful way to explain writing and language conventions to both multilingual as well as native English speakers.
5 Reasons to Stop Saying Good Job, Alfie Kohn, Young Children (September 2001)
The Critical Words Your Students Must Know for the Common Core State Standards
180 Essential Vocabulary Words for 5th Grade, Scholastic
100 Words Every Middle Schooler Should Know, Vocabulary.com
Writing Process Terms in Kid-Friendly Language
VOCABULARY WORD |
KID-FRIENDLY LANGUAGE DEFINITION |
Capital Letters |
Attention-Getting Letters |
Comma |
Slow Down, but Don't Stop |
Dialogue |
Talking on Paper |
Link to A Maths Dictionary for Kids
Link to Tutoring Math wiki
SYMBOL |
KID-FRIENDLY LANGUAGE DEFINITION |
+..Addition Sign..... |
and Link to Addition Example |
-Subtraction Sign....................... |
Take Away |
=Equal Sign |
The same as |
( )Parenthesis |
Answer Me First |
XMultiplication Sign |
Make Bigger Link to Multiplication Example k k k |
'Decimal Point . |
Dividing Point |
Division Sign |
Make Groups of |
Right Angle |
Link to photo showing Stairs are Right Angles |
Parallel Line |
Lines That Never Touch Lines That Are Next To But Do Not Touch Link to Railroad Tracks Are Parallel Lines |
Perpendicular Line |
Lines That End Up Touching Link to photo showing Parrots Have Parallel Wings and Perpendicular Toes k k |
<... |
Smaller |
>... |
Larger |
Numerator and Denominator
|
|
Symmetry |
Mirror Image |
Infinity |
Never ending
|
Bell Curve |
Where the most are in the middle |
Technology Terms and Kid-Friendly Definitions
VOCABULARY WORDk |
KID-FRIENDLY DEFINITION |
Algorithm
App
Clickbait
Cloud
Data
Digital artifact
Digital citizen
Ergonomics
Hardware
Laptop
Mouse
Simulation
Smart device
Smartphone
Social media
Software
Spam
Tablet
URL
Virus
Website
VOCABULARY WORDkk |
KID-FRIENDLY DEFINITION |
Declarative Sentence:
Exclamatory Sentence
Fraction:
Identical: Looking the same
Impending: Something that is about to happen
Internal:
Investment: Putting effort or time into something to get something back
J
Judicial
K
L
M
Majority:
Malleable:
Maintain:
Maximum: the most
Metaphor:
Military:
Minimum: small amount
Minority:
Modify: change shape or appearance
Motive: reason to doing something
N
Narrative: a story of what happened
Negative:
O
Obvious:
Occupy: to take up space
Periodic: repeating in a pattern
Persist: to keep going
Policy: rules to be followed
Positive:
Precise: very accurate
Property
Proposal: suggested or possible plan
Random
React:
Reform: changes to make it better
Remarkable: really special
Rephrase: to say in a different way
Resist: to oppose, disagree, or fight back
Resolution: outcome or end
Revision: Do again to make better; to change something you have done
Rhetoric: Getting someone to do what you want using words
Scarce: few
Scope:
Skim:
Solution: answer to a problem
Specific
Stable: not often changing
Stanza:
Submit
Suggest: offer an idea
Summarize: give a short explanation
Survey: ask questions
T
Target
Technique
Temporary: lasting only a short time
Transfer
U
Unify: to bring together
Unique:
V
Valid: true
Variation:
Voluntary:
W
X
Y
Z