Dictionary recommendation?
Jan. 19th, 2008 04:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
Thanks.
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Date: 2008-01-19 09:57 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2008-01-19 11:22 pm (UTC)Although there's nothing that tickels my bookish soul like a huge dictionary on a stand :D