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48 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
Great Kid's Dictionary
I bought this dictionary for my daughter when she started first grade - knowing that it would be a while until her reading skills were good enough for her to use it. Beginning in about the 2nd grade, she started to use it regularly - and in 3rd grade (last year) she used it all the time. Terrific first dictionary for a kid, with great pictures in full color, good art...
Published on July 23, 2000 by J. Morgan
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13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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I bought this dictionary for my 1st grader. It had great pictures, and the vocabulary was such that I felt like my son could pick it up and read anything in it. When I showed it to him he was excited, but immediately saw a word he didn't know. Then it dawned on me that it did not contain any phonetic pronunciations for any of the words! Isn't this a key ingredient to a...
Published on April 16, 1998
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48 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
Great Kid's Dictionary, July 23, 2000
I bought this dictionary for my daughter when she started first grade - knowing that it would be a while until her reading skills were good enough for her to use it. Beginning in about the 2nd grade, she started to use it regularly - and in 3rd grade (last year) she used it all the time. Terrific first dictionary for a kid, with great pictures in full color, good art and illustrations, nice bold type, etc. What's nice about it is that it's layout is just like a grown-up dictionary - which they will switch to in time. This is a perfect dictionary for a grade schooler to learn to do 'research' with appropriate elementary school/junior high vocabularly. Highly recommended!
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37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
Great 1st Dictionary - 1st-4th grades, December 10, 2004
My review is based on the 2003 version. This version must be vastly improved over earlier reviews, as earlier reviews said it had no pronunciation guide. This version is great! It has blue text for the word. Short, concise definitions and a pronunciation guide at the end.
I feel this is a great "real" 1st dictionary for kids. I picked it for it's readability, suitability/content, and concise definitions. And, as some reviewers said, it may not have "every" word, but I found this version to be the easiest to start with and "entice" them into using the dictionary. I really like the DK/Merrian version, but alas, it's really hard for me and my little guys (1st and 2nd) to decipher through all the blah text, symbols, and more complex definitions. I want them to be excited about reading. My plan is to use this one now until the kids seem to outgrow it, and then I'll upgrade to an "older dictionary". Maybe by then DK/Merriam will have an easier format in a few years. In the interim, I'll use the dictionary.com or merriam-webster online for the missing vocab words. Multiple resources are great.
In closing, I did sit in Barnes and Noble for 20 minutes comparing between the Scholastic, DK/merriam, New World Webster, and American Heritage. I still think for a first children's dictionary that this is a great solution. I would have thought Scholastic would have done a better job. The New World Webster was good with definitions, but the artwork consisted of drawings that were not as "good" and the readability was not quite as good.
Hope this helps all in the market.
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39 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
Up-to-date words and good illustrations., November 25, 1998
I am very happy with the content of this dictionary. It will be a gift for my granddaughter who is 8= however I almost returned it because it is so heavy (6+ pounds). Once she finds a place for it, she will enjoy it and get good use from it for the next two or three years.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
An essential kids dictionary, December 15, 2005
I am a homeschooling Mom and we use it every day! Great pictures. Only slight drawback is that not every word we need is listed in it - most are though. Althogether a good investment.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Well laid out. Good for the younger students., October 30, 2003
There are many things I love about this dictionary. Number one is the way it is put together; easy to read text, plenty of eye-catching pictures and artwork, guidewords conspicuously typeset to make locating entries easier, homographs, inflected forms, and example sentences that show use in context. Even my SLD students are able to use this book. It has been an excellent source in helping them to learn how to use a dictionary as it is less intimidating that the old black and white texts.
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13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
Thumb's Down on American Heritage Children's Dictionary, April 16, 1998
By A Customer
I bought this dictionary for my 1st grader. It had great pictures, and the vocabulary was such that I felt like my son could pick it up and read anything in it. When I showed it to him he was excited, but immediately saw a word he didn't know. Then it dawned on me that it did not contain any phonetic pronunciations for any of the words! Isn't this a key ingredient to a dictionary? I am returning the book for one that does contain pronunciations for each word. I want my children to be able to look up any word they want to know and learn how to pronounce it and learn what it means. If they have to ask someone else, it renders the "reference" book worthless, in my opinion, and discourages future use of the book. Decide for yourselves, though.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent classroom resource, February 25, 2009
I purchased a classroom set - 20 copies - of this dictionary for my second graders. Having spent my own money, you can be sure I checked out the options, and I found this the very best.
The layout of the dictionary is perfect for early learners (kindergarten to third grade). There is a good distribution of informative illustrations that keep young readers interested and supports understanding. I like the boxes inserted throughout which extend knowledge of select words. Synonyms, Word History, Language Detective, & Vocabulary Builder provide inquisitive or gifted children additional links to develop word knowledge.
My job teaching students how to locate words in a dictionary is easier because of the layout. The guide words are easier to identify because they are, like the entry terms on the page, in a light blue type, while all other text is black. Unlike some children's dictionaries, the entry term is shown whole, not syllabized. The syllabized form is given, but last, after more pertinent information.
In a classroom full of literature, this dictionary is a book my students choose to read for entertainment. Perhaps because it is their first reference tool - or because I made them aware of how I acquired them, letting each student carry one up to the classroom - they pour over them. Of course, not every unknown word that a child may encounter will be found in this dictionary. But as an early step toward understanding language and the mechanics of a dictionary, this one is the best I know of to get kids off to a good start.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Wonderful, January 12, 2007
I purchased this for my 8 year old Daughter. Instead of her asking me how to spell this and that word, I showed her how to find it herself in the dictionary. It is very colorful and has beautiful pictures.
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10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
Not good enough, October 26, 2003
By A Customer
My daughter is a 4th grade girl. She could not find a word "hypothesis". Also, she had a difficult time to understand the meaning of a new word. It was a kind of redundant explanation. We decided to buy a new dictionary "Macmillan Dictionary for Children", which has a word "hypothesis" and better explanation of the word she could not understand in the American Heritage Children's Dictionary.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Gread dictionary for my 3rd grader!, November 23, 2009
This review is from: The American Heritage Children's Dictionary (Hardcover)
I really like this dictionary because it's not too vague and not too detailed for little readers. My daughter is a very advanced reader and still found this dictionary extremely useful without being intimidating. Personally, I don't think I was familiar enough with dictionaries and encyclopedias as a child. It is important to me that she enjoy her reference materials now, so that she will use them often and become comfortable doing so throughout the future. The pictures are beautiful and helpful.
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