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Hi!

We're new this year and have been happily doing LHFHG and PHFHG and DITHOR! My son seems to like everything except vocabulary. Actually, I think he has a strong hate for the dictionary now! We have a very large one called The American Heritage Dictionary. The problem is that when he looks up a word, the definition is so difficult for him to understand that we almost have to look up every word in the defintion to get the meaning of the first word and that could go on forever! What is a child friendly dictionary that he can actually understand the definition of the words within the definition? By the way, my ds is 10 and my dd is 6.

Thanks for the help!

We use the Scholastic Children's Dictionary and have had no trouble with it at all. DD8 has been able to find almost all the words in it and can understand the definitions easily. I don't know how much longer we'll use this one though as the vocab words become "harder", she may need a bigger dictionary.

We don't have this revised edition, but here's a link to the newest one: http://www.amazon.com/Scholastic-Childr ... 0439365635

Another one I see recommended is Thorndyke & Barnhart's Junior Dictionary.