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The Oxford English Thesaurus for Schools is easy to use with its accessible layout. It delivers a wide vocabulary with excellent coverage of curriculum words. It also provides context with the age-appropriate example sentences, from the best children's books and teenage fiction to show students how to use language most effectively. It is powered by the Oxford Children's Corpus, a unique electronic database of millions of words written for children. It gives hands-on support to young writers, with a unique toolkit on writing skills, How to Write Well, and panels highlighting common pitfalls and giving useful suggestions for replacing overused words. It is ideal to use when preparing for the Spoken Language Study and the English Language objectives of the GCSE specifications for KS3-4, and where permitted, is ideal for taking in to Controlled Assessments, along with the companion Oxford English Dictionary for Schools. Free downloadable learning resources, word games, puzzles, and much more are available for additional online support at www.oxforddictionaries.com/schools Salient Features NEW LOOK! NEW COVER! NEW 2012 EDITION! Best for content - contemporary and up-to-date Best for context - with real appropriate example sentences from writing for children Panels on Word Webs, Writing Tips, and Overused Words to give hands-on support for students Special How to Write Well supplement on writing skills, such as planning, drafting and editing, paragraph and sentence structure, vocabulary and punctuation, with examples of writing in various genres of fiction and non-fiction Spoken Language Study support with helpful labelling showing how words are used differently in different contexts and can create different effects Ideal for taking in to Controlled Assessments, where allowed Ideal companion to the iOxford English Dictionary for Schoolsr ACCESSIBLE! AGE-APPROPRIATE! AUTHORITATIVE! FROM THE MARKET LEADING CHILDREN'S DICTIONARY PUBLISHER!