The Scholastic Dictionary of Spelling by Marvin Terban, Harry A. Campbell (Illustrator)

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How can you look up the proper spelling of a word if you don't know how to spell it? Is it beet or beat? These questions are answered in this humorously illustrated, alphabetical listing of more than 15,000 words, including often-used proper nouns for school reports. Also included are general rules and exceptions of spelling.

Children's Literature

English is a very tricky language because many of its words have multiple spellings, or multiple pronunciations. English is comprised of words from about 100 other languages. Communication through writing is very important. Whether you are composing a letter, writing a paper for school, or just making a grocery list, it is important to spell words correctly. This book will help you to get those words spelled so that everyone knows what you mean. Once again, Scholastic has come to the rescue of elementary and middle school students in presenting an easy-to-understand, easy-to-use reference book. This dictionary provides Help pages that remind readers about suffixes, compound words, silent letters and more. In addition to a spelling dictionary, a list of commonly misspelled words is here. This is an excellent gift book for the suggested ages, and would be an asset to all classroom collections for these ages.

ALA Booklist

Terban explains the meaning and origins (if known) of more than 600 idioms and proverbs in this intriguing book. . .Terban has obviously done a great deal of research. . .A good resource for teachers . . .