Overview
Vividly illustrated with bright, full-color illustrations by award-winning children's artists, books in the First Picture Dictionaries series speak to kids at progressive age levels. Books combine artwork and/or photo illustrations with bold and easy-to-read word labels and definitions. Parents are encouraged to use these books as aids in teaching children the preliminaries of reading and writing at home. The books also make great teacher's helpers in classrooms, from Pre-K through early grades. With the cheerfully illustrated My First Spanish Dictionary and a little help from parents or teacher, toddlers learn to recognize words in two languages--English and Spanish. They start with word and picture association, each word serving as a picture label and presented in both languages. Words are grouped by themes, such as clothes kids wear, toys they play with, animals, foods, and many others. Questions throughout the book encourage kids to look closely and talk about what they see--in two languages! This book is useful in homes where either English or Spanish is spoken as the family's first language.
Synopsis
Vividly illustrated with bright, full-color illustrations by award-winning children's artists, books in the First Picture Dictionaries series speak to kids at progressive age levels. Books combine artwork and/or photo illustrations with bold and easy-to-read word labels and definitions. Parents are encouraged to use these books as aids in teaching children the preliminaries of reading and writing at home. The books also make great teacher's helpers in classrooms, from Pre-K through early grades. With the cheerfully illustrated My First Spanish Dictionary and a little help from parents or teacher, toddlers learn to recognize words in two languages—English and Spanish. They start with word and picture association, each word serving as a picture label and presented in both languages. Words are grouped by themes, such as clothes kids wear, toys they play with, animals, foods, and many others. Questions throughout the book encourage kids to look closely and talk about what they see—in two languages! This book is useful in homes where either English or Spanish is spoken as the family's first language.
Ann Welton, Grant Center for the Expressive Arts, Tacoma, WA Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information. - Criticas
PreS-Twenty double-page spreads present between eight and 20 common nouns each. On one page, big, bright cartoon illustrations portray an item, giving its name in English and Spanish. The Spanish word is always written with the definite article. The facing page shows a scene and poses two questions. Young readers or listeners are supposed to answer with the correct Spanish word. Since the words are listed topically instead of alphabetically, this is a dictionary only in the loosest sense. However, as a wordbook for the youngest of readers, it functions well. No replacement for Chris Demarest's Spanish Picture Dictionary (Berlitz Kids, 1997), this book is not a necessity for schools; but given its appealing layout and relatively low price, it's good introductory fare for the home, comparable in content if not artistic merit to Rebecca Emberley's Let's Go (Vamos) and My day (Mi dia, both Dutton, 1993).
Editorials
Criticas
PreS-Twenty double-page spreads present between eight and 20 common nouns each. On one page, big, bright cartoon illustrations portray an item, giving its name in English and Spanish. The Spanish word is always written with the definite article. The facing page shows a scene and poses two questions. Young readers or listeners are supposed to answer with the correct Spanish word. Since the words are listed topically instead of alphabetically, this is a dictionary only in the loosest sense. However, as a wordbook for the youngest of readers, it functions well. No replacement for Chris Demarest's Spanish Picture Dictionary (Berlitz Kids, 1997), this book is not a necessity for schools; but given its appealing layout and relatively low price, it's good introductory fare for the home, comparable in content if not artistic merit to Rebecca Emberley's Let's Go (Vamos) and My day (Mi dia, both Dutton, 1993).—Ann Welton, Grant Center for the Expressive Arts, Tacoma, WA Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.