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This picture dictionary for elementary school students presents over 1500 words drawn from the content areas of the US core curriculum in social studies, history, science and maths. There are eight thematic units, which are each divided into separate topics. Each topic has a full-page color illustration on the right-hand page which places the words in context. The left-hand page features individual pictures - callout pictures - taken from the illustration as a whole. This makes it easier for students to isolate items and search for them in the context of the whole picture. The dictionary is available in both monolingual and English-Spanish editions. It can be used by itself or with the accompanying components as the core of an entire curriculum. The CD component provides clear pronunciation of all the words from the dictionary, along with recordings of the content readings and content chants.

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Dorothy Kauffman, (Ph.D.), author of The Oxford Picture Dictionary for the Content Areas, is a consultant with the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) in Washington, DC. Through CAL, she advocates for instruction that integrates the teaching of language and content and conducts professional development workshops at both the elementary and secondary levels. A former classroom teacher, she has served as a K-8 reading consultant and taught speech, reading, and English composition courses at the community college level. At the university level, she has taught reading methods, language arts methods, childrens literature, and supervised student teachers. The author of a supplementary reading series for grades 1-6 and a set of content-based ESL literature units for grades K-1, she helped to develop a social studies curriculum and textbooks for primary grade students of Belize. She also wrote a series of English language arts workbooks for students in grades K-5. Most recently, she revised the first edition of a staff development program, Whats Different about Teaching Reading to Students Learning English?

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