This updated edition features nearly 200 new entries added to the more than 30,000 words with clear, understandable definitions that invite readers to interact with the words and definitions. Features a pronunciation guide and boxes offering extra facts.

With an alphabetical listing of more than 15,000 words, useful rules, and an index of commonly misspelled words, this guide can help any student conquer the spelling dilemma. Illustrations.

An illustrated thesaurus for young readers defines more than five hundred headwords and 2,500 synonyms, providing example sentences for each synonym and including an extensive cross-referencing index.

Presents definitions for over 1,500 head words and includes some 600 color photographs.

Scholastic Early Learners: Encourage early literacy with My Sticker Dictionary, an interactive project book that introduces kids to over 250 first words Learn to read with an interactive sticker book Perfect for promoting early literacy, My Sticker Dictionary includes 64 pages of activities, plus 12 press-out cards and 12 pages of stickers. This innovative sticker dictionary introduces kids to over 250 first words and makes learning to read fun. Scholastic Early Learners: Interactive books for hands-on learning. Perfect for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and first graders, too

New and Updated for 2009 and beyond!

Make learning dictionary skills a snap! Inside you'll find more than a dozen kid-pleasing activities, such as a Fun-etic Fairy Tale, Prefix-agon Puzzles, and the Q & A-Z Board Game. Students practice looking up words, determining parts of speech, using pronunciation guides, learning about prefixes and acronyms, and much more. Perfect for individual or small-group work. Book jacket.