Thorndike Barnhart Children's Dictionary 2001 (Trade Edition)

By Scott Foresman

Book Overview

Here are more opportunities than in any other beginning dictionary to build vocabulary, teach language skills, and encourage learning. Features more than 35,000 entries, 17,000 illustrative examples,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0673603385
• ISBN13: 9780673603388
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Pearson Scott Foresman
• Length: 823 Pages
• Weight: 4.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 8.0" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A perfect starter dictionary

This is great for grades 1-5. Our children will look something up and get entranced with the pictures that lead them to other new and curious words. If there is not a word in there that we need, we go to the next one up...the Thorndike-Barnhardt Junior Dictionary. This dictionary has been consistently useful to us as a starter, with big bold print and clear pictures...helping our children to become accustomed to using it and learning with it.

Excellent dictionary for 2nd to 5th graders

I bought this dictionary when my daughter was in kindergarten. It has many pictures (both illustrated and photos) that drew her interest. We've looked for words in it together. Now that she has started in second grade, she is able to look up words for herself. The explanations are clear and easily understood by a second grader. This dictionary also has additional features that I know will serve well into the upper elementary years. "Word story" explains the origin of certain words; "Synonym Study" gives a comparison of words that are close in meanings and gives examples of usage. "Word Power" gives the "Usage Note", "Spelling Note", "Pronunciation Note" are scattered throughout this dictionary. "Did you know?" and "Have you heard?" also give additional facts. The Reference Section at the end of the dictionary contains a Map of the United States, a Map of the World, The Solar System, Weights and Measures, Facts about the 50 States. I think this is one of the best dictionary available for an elementary school student.

excellent resource

This has been an excellent source of knowledge for my now 13 year old son. We purchased this when Nathan was about 10 years old and he has loved it very much. He still uses it for homework and I've even picked it up from time to time to browse through simply because of it's open layout and ease of reading to learn a little between commercials while watching TV. I will say Nathan uses the internet now more and more for homework and research but it's still great for a quick lookup if he doesn't know hte meaning of a word.

Clear, easy to read, this one is a winner!

My fourth grade daughter struggles to "look up" words in a dictionary. The small print and cluttered format frustrated her to tears. Then we stumbled upon this treasure. The clean typeface, blue colored entry words, and generous use of white space, made this dictionary easy to use. We gave a copy to the LD classroom teacher at her school. The teacher was thrilled - students find this dictionary much more "user friendly" than those provide by the school.

Uncluttered, easy to read lay out makes this one a winner!

My fourth grade daughter struggled to "look up" words. Dictionaries she could use often didn't contain the words she needed. Others were so visually confusing she would give up in frustration. Then we stumbled upon this treasure. With a clean type face, contrasting color for entry words, and intellegent use of white space, she could finally find the word she needed by herself. We donated a copy to the LD classroom at her school. The teacher was thrilled - none of the dictionaries provided by the school were as "user friendly"!