How to Use a Dictionary: Picture Book for Children

Trying to figure out what a word means by the words around it is guess work when all one really has to do is open up a dictionary. Why try to figure it out when Mr. Webster and other's have come up with books that tell you all the different meanings of words in different contexts. As more and more people are taking an active part in education, dictionaries are becoming "popular" again in classrooms and home school rooms. Wouldn't it be helpful to really understand what you're reading, at work, at home, for pleasure, or when putting together a piece of furniture? Why suffer frustration and guessing at what a word means? The behavior of students greatly changes when using this book in conjunction with "Learning How to Learn" and "Grammar and Communication". I've been using this book for many years as a home school teacher. I now use it as a life improvement coach. This is another must-have book by educator L. Ron Hubbard and a greatly appreciated contribution to society.

One thing that was missing in my own education was instruction on how to properly use a dictionary. Usually, when I tried to look up a word, I went away more confused than before!This book explains the proper method of using a dictionary so more confusion does not result! Which may not seem, at the outset, to be very important, but I believe it is the single most important aspect of education.In modern education, children are usually taught to "guess" at the meanings of words. Which might sound fine, unless your mother is about to undergo surgery, and you consider the strong possibility the surgeon about to put her under the knife came across plenty of words in his study that he was told to "guess the meaning" of. Or how about the next time you board a plane? Do you really want a pilot who was taught to just "guess" at those definitions? I sure wouldn't want a lawyer to draft a contract on my behalf, unless I knew for certain that HE knew the definition of every "heretofore" and "forthwith"! ("heretofore" means "up to this time" and "forthwith" means "immediately".)To be truly successful, one must fully understand the meanings of the words one comes across in life, and especially in one's profession. This book will give your child that advantage. His SAT scores will be better. His ability to fully understand what he is studying depends upon his ability to discover the exact meaning of the words he comes across. His LOVE of study depends on this as well!My children studied this book, and continue to apply the principles. When they come across words they don't understand, they get them defined! As a result, they are bright and interested in learning.With this book, you will not only learn HOW to use a dictionary, but WHAT dictionaries to use. I recommend this book to every parent I know...

This book taught my son the basics of using a dictionary. He is 9 years old, and read this book when he was 6. He feels that there is NOTHING he can't study, simply due to what he learned from studying this book.He has read books written for grown-ups, and he can read the newspaper, too. Whenever he comes across a word he doesn't understand, he looks it up in the dictionary! It really impresses people when a child asks them, "what does that word mean?" It seems that most kids are so used to hearing words they don't know the meanings of, that they just learn to brush past it.This book teaches HOW to get the definition of a word, and it makes it easy to do so. Instead of getting MORE confused trying to look a word up in the dictionary, all the secrets to HOW to find these definitions successfully are in this book.I love this one, and I think ANY adult or child could benefit from it!

By far the most under-used and least understood book in the field of education is the Dictionary. The book teaches an individual how to use a Dictionary. It will give you a fundamental understanding of how to trace the origin of words, pronounce them, define them to achieve full understanding and much more. This book belongs at the entry level to any step in education, and deserves to be in broad use. I recommend it for both children and adults.