My First Dictionary
The Richmond First Dictionary provides everything necessary to support a fully integrated, literacy-enriched curriculum that has content-based learning and general knowledge acquisition as its goals. As a stand-alone vocabulary enrichment text, The Richmond First Dictionary is an appropriately advanced language tool that teachers can use for classroom instruction but is also easily understandable so that students at all levels of achievement can use it independently.
Key features:
- Idioms containing the headword appear in its entry.
- Subjects areas in which the headword is used are mentioned.
- A language note helps use a headword correctly. It appears in a yellow box right after the entry for the headword.
- The main entry, or head-word, is in blue. Headwords of more than one syllable are divided by bullets.
- The captions and labels for illustrated headwords provide extra information.
- Colour alphabet guides help students find letters quickly.
- Many words have interesting stories. These are presented in coloured feature boxes.
- Numbres idetify the different definitions or meanings of a word.
- The dictionary contains more than 1,400 illustrations and photos.
- The captions for illustrated words provide extra information.
- The main entry or headword is in blue so that it stands out clearly.
- Coloured featured panels provide more information about interesting words.
