Description
Product ID: | 9780192744029 |
Product Form: | Multiple-component retail product |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Oxford Children's Thesaurus |
Authors: | Author: Oxford Dictionaries |
Page Count: | 288 |
Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage reference: Dictionaries and Languages, Dictionaries, school dictionaries (Children's / Teenage), English, For National Curriculum Key Stage 2, Interest age: from c 8 years |
Description: | Select Guide Rating A new edition of the popular Oxford Children's Thesaurus, ideal for homework with updated text and a new Creative Writing supplement. Over 45,000 synonyms, with age-appropriate examples and opposites, make this an ideal thesaurus to help children aged 8+ with homework. It features Overused Word panels that suggest alternatives to words like ''nice'' and ''good''; Word Webs - ideal for project work - providing related words - for example ''bird'' includes types of birds, parts of a bird''s body, sounds made by birds and the words for groups of birds along with some illustrations of birds; Writing Tips that offer advice and even more vocabulary for writing, e.g. about how birds move - do they circle, flutter or perch? - or how to describe their feathers. Compiled using the Oxford Children''s Corpus, the Oxford Children''s Thesaurus delivers support and help where it is needed. |
Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2015-05-07 |