What dictionary are you using?

[HollyS]

I'm looking into dictionaries for next year and there are so many to pick from. A dictionary for younger students may not have our vocab words...but some of the regular dictionaries have words I'd rather them not see! I have my dictionary I used in college and it definitely fits in the 2nd category.

[pjdobro]

We have a Scholastic children's dictionary that we tried to use most of the time. Unfortunately quite a few of our vocabulary words in Bigger weren't in the children's dictionary. The other one we have is an old (about 30 years old) Webster's dictionary. It usually had the words for which we were looking. I'm sure it probably has a lot of other questionable words as well, but my dc don't use it just to browse, and we usually try the children's dictionary first. You'll probably run into that with most any dictionary. For it to be complete, it will have a lot of words that you might not want your dc to know yet. Therefore, it might be something you have to supervise when they use it.

[Heart_Mom]

I'm looking into dictionaries for next year and there are so many to pick from. A dictionary for younger students may not have our vocab words...but some of the regular dictionaries have words I'd rather them not see! I have my dictionary I used in college and it definitely fits in the 2nd category.

We have the Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary that my father-in-law gave my husband when he graduated high school. We've only one one Bigger vocab assignment, but I'm thinking it will be fine. The definition of "imposter" was a little more wordy than I wanted to have them write, so I also looked the word up online and used a simpler definition.

I think it's important to actually look up the word in a physical dictionary, but it won't bother me if I occasionally simplify the definition for them.

Hope that helps!