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I came across a few sites that could be used for word fun and learning tonight on a blog I read regularly.

Does anyone have anything else "wordy" online that we and our kids might like?

the blog post-
http://missrumphiuseffect.blogspot.com/2011/08/blooms-digital-taxonomy-pyramid.html.

The post has a link to another resource that folks here might find useful for online activities (many interesting links here, I'm still clicking around)
http://www.usi.edu/distance/bdt.htm

Some sites from these resources I thought were particularly cool-
http://visuwords.com/ visual dictionary
http://www.wordnik.com/ they call it a "dictionary on steroids"
http://www.periodicvideos.com/videos/008.htm not words, videos on the elements

another site I was reminded of -
http://www.wordle.net/ word cloud generator

These look great!

Are there any good books to increase vocabulary for grade 2 and 3 kids - looking for something fun

http://wordcentral.com/games.html

The BigBot game is actually pretty hard. My rising second grader found it to be quite a challenge--one of very few online games that isn't too hard for her coordination-wise and too easy for her content-wise.

That's so cool!
Thanks!

Thanks for sharing~~
My daughter has been learning words from beestar. It offers weekly worksheets with cute pictures and interesting stories. DD loves it!
Lisa