includes more than 5,000 headwords–plus short forms, plurals, alternative verb forms, comparatives and superlativesgives help with pronunciation where necessaryfeatures a special introduction for children, ‘What is a dictionary?’gives concise instructions on ‘How to use this book’includes clear guide words that indicate the first and last headwords on each spreadreinforces knowledge of the alphabet by providing an alphabet strip on each pagefeatures separate lists of high-frequency words (derived from Letters and Sounds), pronouns, opposites, synonyms, time words (including days of the week, months and seasons) and numbersprovides additional lists of topic words on the themes ‘School’, ‘Places’ and ‘Travelling’ideal for use with the First Thesaurus (see opposite page), which gives synonyms for over 2000 of the headwords listed