Author : Oxford Dictionaries,Oxford Dictionaries Staff
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : English language
ISBN : 019274402X
Oxford Children's Thesaurus by Oxford Dictionaries,Oxford Dictionaries Staff Pdf
Over 45,000 synonyms, age-appropriate examples and opposites make this an ideal thesaurus for homework help for children aged 8+. Key features are picked out: Overused Words panels at words such as "nice" and "good" give appropriate alternatives; Word Webs provide related words for projectwork - such as at "bird": types of birds, parts of a birds body, sounds made by birds and words for groups of birds; Writing Tips provide tips and even more vocabulary for writing.The new Creative Writing supplement shows how to create words using prefixes and suffixes, how to use idioms and similies and other was to make your writing effective and powerful. Compiled using the Oxford Children's Corpus, it reflects children's vocabulary and delivers support and help where it'sneeded.