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This authoritative new edition of the bestselling Oxford School Thesaurus boosts vocabulary and improves writing skills through new curriculum support. With the help of the Oxford Children's Corpus, the largest bank of children's language in English, the thesaurus is able to proivde a range of carefully-levelled words, synonyms and antonyms and age-appropriate example sentences. These are written in the natural language of contemporary children using contexts that will make the thesaurus easy and enjoyable for every child to use. Phrasal verbs, idioms, and writing tips help to explore the richness of language and make writing more effective, whether in creative writing or in essays, projects, reports and letters. A writing supplement with spelling, grammar and punctuation support makes this a complete toolkit to enhance basic literacy skills, build confidence, deliver the curriculum and help children prepare for the level of writing expected at secondary school. As with all Oxford children's thesauruses, it has been trialled with teachers. A perfect buy, in a resilient hardback format with a refreshing new look, an essential for any bookshelf. Downloadable word games, puzzles and activities are available at www.oxforddictionaries.com/schools
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9780192743510
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With its colourful clear layout and familiar first words, each with a simple definition and illustration, the Oxford Very First Dictionary is a fun and easy way for young children to learn how to use a dictionary. Key features include:  Over 300 familiar words with definitions and illustrations  Introduces young children to the features of a dictionary in an appealing way  A perfect fit for delivering the literacy framework for Reception/Foundation and Scottish Guidelines P1  Headwords simply explained using full sentences and an illustration  Gives the full alphabet, with alphabet thumb tabs, on every page  Includes a useful introduction on how to get the best out of the dictionary  Illustrated section on Words We Write a Lot, Verbs, Colours, Shapes, Days of the Week, Months of the Year, Numbers to 20 and the alphabet  For children aged 4-5 and for early years learning
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9780192756824
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100 years after its first publication, the twelfth edition of this world-famous bestseller gives the most up-to-date picture of the English language today. The original 1911 edition, revolutionary at the time for its focus on current English and its use of illustrative examples, combined a succinct yet approachable style with coverage of everyday as well as specialist terms. This centenary edition continues this ground-breaking tradition, giving you rich authoritative coverage of English as it is used today. The CD-ROM offers full-text search functionality, instant look-up from Windows(R) documents, including email and the internet, and high-quality spoken pronunciations for thousands of words, making it ideal for family use, as well as for homework and school use. The CD-ROM is both Windows(R) and Mac compatible. Explore our language resources on oxforddictionaries.com, Oxford's home for dictionaries and language reference. Updated regularly with the latest changes to words and meanings
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9780199601103
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This new edition of the Pocket Oxford Chinese Dictionary comes packaged with the Talking Chinese Dictionary & Instant Translator, an innovative CD-ROM that provides instant pop-up translation help and invaluable Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for over 20,000 single-character words, allowing you to listen and practice. Authoritative and up-to-date, this fourth edition of the Pocket Oxford Chinese Dictionary covers over 90,000 words and phrases, and over 120,000 translations of contemporary Chinese and English, with brand-new words in each language. More than just a dictionary, this handy reference book includes a brand new section on communication, giving you the tools you need to communicate effectively and understand aspects of another culture. The communication supplement gives help with all types of correspondence, including example letters and emails. It also contains a 'useful phrases' section to help you when travelling. This dictionary is ideal for English and Chinese learners alike with Chinese simplified and traditional characters as well as pinyin romanization used throughout. You can quickly find the character you need by looking up in pinyin or using the radical index. Mandarin pronunciations are provided in pinyin. This book and CD-ROM package is the perfect reference for student and adult learners of English and Chinese .
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9780198005957
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This updated edition of the Oxford Junior Illustrated Thesaurus features thousands of synonyms with new illustrations and photographs in a contemporary and easy-to-use design. Entries are simple and clear, and include example sentences to show the words in context. It is powered by the Oxford Children's Corpus, a unique electronic database of millions of words of writing for children. Writing tips on choosing the right word, character and setting vocabulary, and alternatives to words like 'nice' and 'good', are given to support young writers. Getting around the thesaurus is easy with the alphabet on every page, and coloured tabs highlighting the letter of the page. The Top 10 Tips for Writing Stories at the back are excellent. It is the ideal companion to the Oxford Junior Illustrated Dictionary. What's more, you can go online for fun word activities for school and home on the www.oxforddictionaries.com/schools website.
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9780192756862
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The all new Oxford First Thesaurus, with bright, contemporary artwork and easy-to-use page design, is the best thesaurus for children in their early school years. It is powered by the Oxford Children's Corpus, a unique electronic database of millions of words of writing for children. The colourful, simple layout gives entries in alphabetical order along with hundreds of carefully-levelled synonyms for each entry and engaging full colour illustrations. To make navigation as easy as ABC, we have included the full alphabet on every page with coloured tabs, the letter of the page is highlighted. There is a full index of all the words that are included in the book at the back. It is the ideal companion to the Oxford First Dictionary. Go online for downloadable word games, puzzles, and activities on the www.oxforddictionaries.com/schools website.
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9780192756848
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Completely updated to include all the latest vocabulary, this fourth edition of the Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary contains coverage of over 175,000 words and phrases, and 240,000 translations. It includes a comprehensive correspondence guide with sample letters, emails, and CVs, plus fun and informative cultural notes on life and living in the Spanish-speaking world. This new edition also features new sections on Spanish as used around the world, false friends and Spanglish, as well as an entirely new internet section helping with everyday online activities from booking tickets to banking online. The Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary is easy to use, with a clear layout featuring a two-colour text design and printed thumb tabs for quick reference.
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9780199560943
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The ideal Spanish dictionary for intermediate to advanced learners. Revised and updated to cover all the latest words and meanings in both languages.

Designed for students and professionals using Spanish in the course of their work or study. It draws on Collins unique databases of Spanish and English to ensure that the user has the most complete and accurate picture of real language available today.

  • Contains all the latest vocabulary from a wide range of fields, with special feature entries about life and culture in Spanish-speaking countries.
  • In-depth treatment of complex words, practical tips on spoken and written Spanish guide the user to additional information making this dictionary the ideal tool for intermediate to advanced students.
  • Translation tips and guidance on emailing and texting in Spanish.
  • Accessible layout guides users to what they want quickly.
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9780007369805
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A major new edition of the trusted, bestselling, comprehensive Oxford School Dictionary with new curriculum support. This fantastic new edition will boost your children's vocabulary with new words and meanings from across the curriculum. A helpful new spelling, grammar and punctuation section is included to enhance language skills and bring the dictionary up to date. What makes it the best? It is uniquely powered by the Oxford Children's Corpus, the largest bank of children's language in English, so you can be confident that all entries are clearly written in child-friendly language that children actually understand. Each example is perfectly age-appropriate, making it easy and enjoyable for every child to use. New for this edition is a robust supplement on spelling, grammar and punctuation, giving targeted help with the tricky bits, making this dictionary the perfect tool to support children in their journey to become good readers and writers. As usual, it has been extensively trialled with schools, so you can be sure it is still the best dictionary for your children, in a handy pocket-sized format. Further help with writing skills is available in the updated new edition of the companion Oxford School Thesaurus. Looking for great word activities to match this dictionary? Find fun downloadable activities, puzzles, and word games at www.oxforddictionaries.com/schools
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9780192747105
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With a clear, colour layout to make it easy to navigate, the book is in two parts. The first part is a reference section of simple rules, tips, and examples to help students spell, punctuate, and write correctly in school, in exams, and at home. This divides into three sections - Spelling, Punctuation, and Grammar. The second part is an alphabetical word list of common tricky words, with inflections, but no meanings. This list highlights, using analysis from the Oxford Children's Corpus, words that are most frequently misspelt by this age group, to target and rectify these common mistakes. There are helpful tips to guide the user around the alphabetical list to the word they are looking for, and helpful notes at key words to aid correct spellings. It will be a valuable resource for preparation for students taking exams with increased focus on accurate spelling and grammar. It will be a user-friendly resource for pupils to correct their own spellings and improve their spelling techniques and grammar. The accessible format will also provide an invaluable quick guide for spelling, punctuation marks, and grammar rules for teachers and parents as well.
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9780192745378
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Every Word Counts!

Nearly every Scrabble (TM) player has been involved in a dispute over which words are acceptable on a Scrabble board. Now you can settle all those squabbles with the latest official wordlist from Collins - the authority on Scrabble.

Compiled using the Collins corpus - the world's largest language database - Collins Scrabble Words is the most comprehensive Scrabble wordlist ever, including World English from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, UK, and USA brought together in a single list.

With over a quarter of a million permissible words, including inflected forms, Collins Scrabble Words is the most extensive word list ever published and is the ideal adjudication tool for anyone playing Scrabble.

Collins Scrabble Words is endorsed by Mattel and is an essential reference for all Scrabble players, from keen tournament players to families playing with children.

SCRABBLE (TM) is a registered trademark of J. W, Spear & Sons Ltd., a subsidiary of Mattel, Inc. (c) 2007 Mattel, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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9780007425624
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Bailli re's Midwives' Dictionary is the dictionary of choice for student midwives. The 11th edition of this established and well-respected dictionary has been thoroughly revised and updated. Comprehensive antenatal tests and investigations Infertility terminology and techniques Woman-friendly definitions Useful appendices Main entries increased, for ease of searching New terms for recent tests and investigations Mainly new artwork to update old-fashioned illustrations Genetic advances Online ancillaries: spellchecker, Word of the Day, weblinks.
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