The American Heritage Children's Thesaurus
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (990 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 054454272X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Paul Hellweg has written eleven nonfiction books and is a poet and film producer. He has also taught at California State University, Northbridge.
Book game kitty The kids I purchased this book for love it. They have made up a game of their own where one of them says the main word and the others try to think of the other words that mean the same thing. I love seeing them not only playing together, but gaining a great vocabulary. They may end up using my thesaurus for more words later on.. "Clear concise for the younger elementary set" according to Anonymous. We purchased the American Heritage Dictionary for a class of second-graders, and this thesaurus is a great supplement. It offers a clear explanation at the beginning of the book of its use. Each entry word is followed by the italicized part of speech under which it is classified, followed by a sentence using the word. You are then offered usually a small list of synonyms. There are boxes on the pages, pretty much at random, which give word groups relating to some subject area (a hotel, for instance). Everything is geared towards elementary comprehension, without being dumbed down.If I were offering a thesaurus to a middle school child, I. "Just what we needed." according to Linda K Johnaon. I purchased both the thesaurus & the dictionary for the children in my Sunday School class. We are using them to define works in scripture that we might otherwise not understand. Working great
More than 150 full-color photographs illustrate the many example sentences and make this book as attractive as it is useful. As an added bonus, this updated edition includes an explanation of the major parts of speech, to help young writers establish a firm grasp of language.. Ages 8–12, Grades 3–6 With more than 4,000 entries and 36,000 synonyms, this updated, award-winning thesaurus encourages young writers to think analytically about their word choices. Entries are arranged in a way that distinguishes between words that are close synonyms and words that differ somewhat in meaning or usage
Each word is used in a sentence to clarify its meaning. Each deep purple entry includes its part of speech in italics, and lists the suggested synonyms in bold, best matches first. Color photographs are sprinkled throughout for visual relief, and "Antonyms" and "Word Groups" boxes help expand vocabulary choices. (Ages 8 to 12) . Word groups are reserved for words like "international," which doesn't have a real synonym but a cluster of closely related words such as "communal, global, national, planetary, universal," and "worldwide." If your favo