Dictionary recommendation?

[beetiger]

Rhys is starting to read books with words he doesn't know -- "bolted" was today's -- and I'd like to teach him "looking in the dictionary" as one approach to finding out what a word means. Anyone have a good recommendation for a kids' dictionary, aimed at a 3nd grade- 5th grade reading level or so? (No, that's not the level Rhys is reading at, I'd like this to last for a little while. He's reading level 3 readers, which is I think about a 2nd grade level?)

Thanks.

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[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I kinda want to suggest just getting a decent unabridged, complete with stand, and keeping it somewhere he can get to on his own! This makes it easy for him to have that formative geek experience of "reading an entire chapter of the dictionary" whenever the mood comes to him.

We had a big-ass unabridged sitting on the floor under the coffee table on the little stand it came with. It was always open to some random page. When we needed it, it got consulted.

You could also teach him how to use the dictionary on the computer, if you've got one, though that kinda obliviates the joy of finding words by accident. And I just learnt that the Mac's dictionary doesn't know the word 'obliviate'. You might also want to have a few eclectic word books lying around, to give him the opportunity to discover the joys of having a willfully sesquipedalian vocabulary.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Well, the compact OED is in reach, I just don't think he can lift it yet. ;)

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Can he turn the pages? That's what matters, if it's kept out and open on a stand!

[decantmonkey.livejournal.com]

Scholastic Children's Dictionary. My kids love it! :D

Although there's nothing that tickels my bookish soul like a huge dictionary on a stand :D