All new edition of a dictionary designed for people withlimited English language skills. Great for ESL students. More than36,000 entries with concise, easy-to-understand definitions. Morethan 20,000 usage examples with over 400 detailed line drawings,many revised. Also includes word histories, biographical names andgeographical names.
An updated edition of the essential bestselling dictionary for children in grades 3-5, this is an ideal resource for school or home with more than 36,000 entries and approximately 900 vibrant, colorful illustrations, photographs, and diagrams. Designed to help students and educators meet Common Core Standards.
The best-selling Worst-Case Scenario series returns with this "extreme" follow-up to the Junior Edition. Packed with funny, kid friendly instructions for the most extreme situations such as how to handle an encounter with a tarantula, how to navigate by the stars, how to build a snow cave, and more!
Packed with all the zany humour and bizarre characters thatmake Dr.Seuss so popular with young readers, this wacky dictionarywill keep children laughing all the way from A to Z.Containing over1000 everyday words arranged in alphabetical order, The Cat in theHat Dictionary takes a typically Seussian approach, with a host ofcrazy animals and potty people doing some of the strangest things –from crocodiles nursing babies and goats playing horns to dogseating noodles and bears playing marbles.None the less, the bookhas a serious purpose in that it teaches young children aged threeupwards fundamental dictionary skills, without them even realisingit. While they laugh at the pictures and look at the words, theyare also learning about word and picture association, alphabeticalorder, word searching, word usage and alliteration, not to mentionlearning to read. All that from one book!
An all-new edition of the essential dictionary for childrengrades 3-5, ages 8-11, with more than 36,000 entries. Expandedusage sentences and phrases include over 1,300 quotes from classicand contemporary children's literature. Additional features includehundreds of new, colorful illustrations, photographs, and diagrams:word history and synonym paragraphs; pronunciation paragraphs foreach letter; child-friendly usage hints; and Greek and Latin wordroot paragraphs to aid spelling and vocabulary building. Specialsections include geographical terms, signs and symbols, word roots,and a list of literary works used in the text.
