Oxford School Thesaurus

An up-to-date new edition of this bestselling, comprehensive classroom classic, with new curriculum support. Focused coverage of words, synonyms and antonyms helps to improve writing skills, for creative writing and non-fiction. Essential spelling, grammar and punctuation support make it perfect for progress from primary to secondary school.

Over 150,000 synonyms and related words with headwords in bold type. Over 300 special word lists covering a range of subjects. Ideal for vocabulary building and extended project work. Examples show words used in their correct context. Parts of speech are given to help pupils find the correct word in its correct grammatical usage. Opposites are given to encourage other vocabulary building. Cross references lead to a further selection of synonyms and related words.

Features:

• Boosts vocabulary with thousands of carefully chosen words, synonyms and antonyms
• Gives clear, accessible, age-appropriate examples relevant to the language children use in real life, in their reading and writing
• Builds essential literacy and writing skills with spelling, grammar and punctuation support and tips for creative writing
• Powered by the up-to-date and contemporary analysis of the Oxford Children's Corpus, the largest bank of children's language in English
• Hardback, 576 pages.