School Spelling Dictionary

Author(s): Christine Maxwell, Julia Rowlandson

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A fresh new edition of this highly acclaimed and strong selling dictionary. This book allows students to use phonic attack to find both regular and irregular spellings. Students can look up a word as it sounds - if they are correct, they will find it in black, if they are wrong they will find it in red, with the correct spelling in black alongside. Designed for use from Key Stages 1 to 3, the School Spelling Dictionary is ideal for improving spelling and writing.

Interest Age: 8-12


Help your readers to become better spellers with our bestselling School Spelling Dictionary.


 


Designed to help build spelling confidence, the School Spelling Dictionary allows children to look up a word using common incorrect or phonetic spellings. For example, look up Foto, find it marked in red and the correct spelling, Photo, marked against it in black.


Simple, accessible layout for use in school. Particularly useful for poor spellers and for consolidating dictionary skills.


Product Information

Christine Maxwell worked as a teacher in Oxford in the 70s. It was while teaching that she came up with the idea to write a dictionary that her own students could use even if they did not know how to spell. She wrote The Dictionary of Perfect Spelling in 1977 and it became an international bestseller. In 2005 she wrote the hugely successful revised edition for Barrington Stoke. She lives in France. Julia Rowlandson trained as a Primary school teacher and now works as an Educational Consultant. She was the Editor of the revised edition of the Dictionary. She was formerly Deputy Head of More House School and has

General Fields

  • : 9781781121511
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • : Harper Element
  • : 0.35
  • : August 2012
  • : 210mm X 148mm X 20mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Christine Maxwell, Julia Rowlandson
  • : Paperback
  • : en
  • : 423.1
  • : 256