Oxford Children's Thesaurus

by RobertAllen (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2003

  $4.36

  The Oxford Children's Thesaurus is aimed at readers at KS2, YR3-6 and P4-7 for Scotland. *No confusing abbreviations - word classes (parts of speech) and inflections written in full *Usage notes to help to encourage accurate use of language *Topic entries giving connected words for project work eg. Weather, Farm *Example sentences to help select the most appropriate word *Up-to-date example sentences and phrases show how words are used in context

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.27

  The Oxford Children's Thesaurus is a new edition with completely new, up-to-date text to take young readers into the new millennium! Specially written for this age group and an ideal companion to The Oxford Children's Dictionary , its major features are: - 70 000 synonyms, similar and related words - Headword entries in colour - Headwords and examples carefully chosen to tie in with those in Children's Dictionary - Extensive treatment of core vocabulary - Naturalness of examples supported by British National Corpus - Information organized clearly with the most useful words given first - Concentrates on the main function of a thesaurus: not to explain hard words but to give alternatives for familiar words - Meets the new school curriculum requirements - Extensively trialled and tested in schools - Durable sewn binding