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The American Heritage Student Thesaurus

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This book is an amazing resource for children. My children literally fight over who gets to use the book next. I highly recommend it for any classroom grades 4-7.

Teaching fifth graders English is a large task. It is hard to find meaningful resources to assist in the writing process. I highly recommend this thesaurus for any teacher wanting to improve student vocabulary and teach reference skills. My children literally fight over who gets to use the book next!

As a homeschooling mom I was furstrated with the old edition we were trying to use. This one has been perfect though I know we will have to get a more advanced one as the kids get older.

I bought the dictionary and thesaurus for our homeschool library. I love them both. At the front of the book a lesson in thesaurus use, as well as parts of speech and other helpful language arts tid bits can be found. When there are no true synonyms for a word it is explained in a highlighted "Word Group" box by the specific entry. My six year old can use this thesaurus, and she will continue to use it for quite some time. It is quite helpful and user friendly!

Example from book:

helpful adjective beneficial, handy, useful, valuable, practical, good, productive, constructive. My friend gave me some helpful advice. Antonyms: useless, worthless

Or

Word Group
Shoes are outer coverings for the human foot. Shoe is a general term sieht no true synonyms. Here are some common types of shoes:

athletic shoes, brogan, brogue, clodhopper, clog, flats, gym shoe, high heels, Loafers, mule, oxford, patent leather, pumps, running shoe, sabot, sandal, tennis shoe, wingtip, work shoe

My 10-year-old really enjoys using this to look up words. There have been times when we could not find certain words though. So parents should have a regular thesaurus for backup.

I sent this thesaurus to my 9 year old granddaughter. She absolutely loves it. It is very complete, in large type easy to read, and a wonderful companion to the dictionary I purchased for her. Her story writing and vocabulary has certainly improved.

This thesaurus is well laid out, concise, and age appropriate. It's a great addition to our homeschool resource library.

My children and I absolutely love this thesaurus! We didn't really use a thesaurus much until we started The Institute For Excellence in Writing student writing program. The only thesaurus we had was one I bought when I was in highschool. Most thesauruses don't help the children know which synonyms are good for their context or not. This one does an absolutley superb job! I am greatly impressed.
Now when we edit our work, we do it to everything not just writing class, and it is much more enjoyable. I don't have to hear "but it was in the thesaurus". There is a sentence for each set of common context synonyms to assist in choosing the correct synonym (or antonym).
As a homeschooling mom I have to say this is a must have reference tool, it adds so much clarity to such a vague concept for children. I like it so much we now have 2!

My 4th grader: It's easier to use, it's totally cool! The words are bigger. It tells you what words don't have synonyms so you don't go looking. (There are blocks called Word Groups. Words that are associated but not really synonyms are located throughout the book in blue blocks with descriptions. For example: if you look up lizard, instead of finding synonyms, you get a blue word group block with the words chameleon, gecko, gila monster, and iguana.)

My 2nd Grader: It separates them so you don't get mixed up so your teacher doesn't tell you your sentence is wrong.

This book gives the children extensive instructions for using this book. It really maximizes what they get out of the it.

I bought this for my 4th grader. I like the name of the book calling it a Student Thesaurus versus a Children's Thesaurus. I think she will use this book longer just because of the title. Who wants to be in the 6th grade using a book with the word Children's on it?!!

It is a nice mixture of words & some colorful pictures to break up the page & give it some life.

I'm thinking as she gets into HS, she will be mostly on the computer & be using the thesaurus there, but I think this book is great for kids ages 3rd grade - 8th grade or until they transition to computer usage only.