OXFORD FIRST RHYMING DICTIONARY

This is an innovative, cutting-edge dictionary full of words that rhyme, rhyming families, rhyming sounds, and poems. It will help children to write their own poetry, rap, slogans, songs, rhyming stories or just to extend their writing vocabulary. It is the only rhyming dictionary aimed at children aged 5-8 years, compiled by a poet and tested with teachers and children. It contains 60 original poems - wacky, cheeky, and funny - all written by the well-known children's poet John Foster. It is illustrated with bright, contemporary, and humorous artwork. There is alphabet border on each spread. It features Y1 and Y2 words from NLS, is suitable for all KS1 (Scottish Guidelines P1-P3), plus contains catch-up support for KS2 (P4-P7). Special attention is given to words that rhyme but are spelled differently eg. mole/goal. Indexes list all the words in the dictionary as well as rhyming sounds as required by schools. It encourages pupils to read and spell phonically decodable two and three syllable word eg. Sure.