tailieunhanh - Macmllan Childrens Dictionary

The #1 children's dictionary in America is now completely revised with a stunning design! With more than 3,000 images and 35,000 up-to-date entries, the most trusted name in children's reference is easy to navigate and fun to peruse. Authoritative, accurate, and current, the Macmillan Dictionary for Children is the ideal resource for beginning readers and spellers. | MACMILLAN c ILDREN S DICTIONARY Carolyn Barraclough com MACMILLAN MACMILLAN CONTENTS Animals 2 46 Notes to the Teacher 2 Food 1 50 Toys 6 Food 2 54 Shapes and Colors Colours 8 In the Home 1 58 In the Classroom 10 In the Home 2 62 In the Playground 14 Transportation 66 The Body 18 The Family 68 The Face 20 Weather and Seasons 70 My Day 22 At the Beach 72 Clothes 26 In the Town 74 Numbers and Time 30 In the Country 78 Positions 32 The Earth 82 Sports 34 Space 84 Having Fun 38 Jobs 86 Opposites 40 Music 90 Animals 1 42 Wordlist 92 92 I u I w Notes to the Teacher The Macmillan Children s Dictionary combines clear vibrant photographs with graded puzzle-type activities to bring a new dimension to vocabulary resources. The topicbased approach provides a meaningful context to reinforce memorization. The Macmillan Children s Dictionary is intended mainly as a classroom resource which will help primary-age children consolidate and enlarge their vocabulary through guided practice. It can also be used as a personal reference resource al home with the aid of the alphabetical wordlist. Organization The dictionary is arranged by topic groupings. In general the earlier topics are the simpler ones - such as Toys and Numbers. These and the middle topics -such as Animals and The Home - are likely to be common to most primary courses. The topics that occur towards the end of the book such us Music and Jobs - are more applicable to children al the end of their primary course or just beginning their secondary studies. illustrated items within each topic are arranged thematically. Where words are different in British and American English these are clearly marked. Activities Following on from each wordbank the main graded activities are presented on one page or one double-page spread to correspond with the coverage of that topic. Vocabulary The vocabulary for each topic is presented in a photographic wordbank either on one page or across one double-page spread. The .