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The American Heritage Student Dictionary
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by Editors of The American Heritage Dictionaries
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 1088 pages
Published by: Houghton MifflinEdition: 1st Edition May 3, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0618701494
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0618701490
Book Dimensions:
10.1 x 8.1 x 1.5 inches
Weighs: 4.3 pounds
From School Library Journal
Grade 6-9--This new edition of an old standby is brightened up considerably with more than 2000 full-color photographs and illustrations, and 3000 new definitions. Marginal notes appear throughout the book, providing information about regional uses, common grammatical errors, word roots, and pronunciation; these added features, while entertaining, are too random to act as real resources. The true strength of this dictionary comes from the inclusion of terms, idioms, geographical locations, and basic biographical entries in one alphabetical arrangement. With all the basics one expects from a good dictionary, plus a few extras such as detailed etymology for some entries and notes on usage, this is an ideal basic reference for home or library use.--Kathleen Kelly MacMillan, Maryland School for the Deaf, Columbia
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From Parents' Choice®
Students aged 11-15 will find detailed entries with sentence examples and word etymology. Synonym features and the Word History and Word Building listings enhance the book's student-friendly appeal and the user's language skills. Added highlights-a style guide, the Periodic Table of Elements and a geologic time chart-make this a useful desk reference. A 1999 Parents' Choice Recommendation. (Parents' Choice®)
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: The American Heritage Student Dictionary (Hardcover)
My six year old needed a dictionary to look up words for her Junior Great Books homework. At first, I was drawn to dictionaries written for 8-10 year olds. They had larger print and flashier, more colorful pictures. Unfortunately, they didn't do the job of providing definitions for the unfamiliar words we needed to define (this week we needed to find tun, puncheon, bewail, and beadle.) I was forced to look at dictionaries aimed at an older audience and found that many were just not visually appealing. I didn't want a bland reference book that would be opened as little as necessary. I wanted something worth flipping through on a rainy day. When I opened this one up, I was pleased to see a good number of color photographs. On one two page spread, for example, there are pictures of Thelonius Monk, a Monolith (on Easter Island), the Sydney Monorail, James Monroe, a montage (of photographs showing things in London), and Maria Montessori. The photos are clear and well chosen; I learned what a mummer and a samovar are by just flipping through and finding interesting photos of them. Even more importantly, it actually had definitions for the words my daughter was looking for, in type that wasn't too small for her to read! This dictionary uses the pronunciation you're familiar with from collegiate dictionaries, with a small key for the symbols printed on the bottom left hand margin of every two page spread. It's a nice "training wheel" in the transition to this formal way of writing pronunciations. There are also shaded boxes in some of the outside margins that give information about word building, usage, geography, and science. A few short biographies are also included in colored boxes in the margins. I found these to be interesting and informative for kids and adults alike (do you know what the words enthuse, donate, and diagnose have in common?) A two page spread with the periodic table is found after the entry for "element," rather than at the back or front of the book in a reference section; similar space is dedicated to other words like "taxonomy" and "solar system." Simple etymology for many words is included at the end of the entries. For example, for acupuncture it says "First written down in 1684 in English : Latin acus, needle + English puncture." The scope of this dictionary makes it useful as a family reference book throughout elementary and middle school. It has all of the words your kids will encounter in their reading, plus a few words that might be new to most adults.
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