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You can use The Illustrated Dictionary of Everyday Things in whole class instruction, guided reading, independent practice, partner learning, and vocabulary centers.  Click on the pdf symbol to discover
21 Intriguing and Practical Ways to Use
The Illustrated Dictionary of Everyday Things to:

  • • Extend concepts
  • • Use as a bridge between reading and writing    
  • • Expand students’ application of words across contexts
  • • Build word relationships
  • • Develop critical thinking skills
  • • Build concepts using a concept map
  • • Improve your students’ ability to use knowledge of individual words to predict meaning of compound words
  • • Increase your student’s understanding of multiple meaning words

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