Description:

Program Consultant Margarita Calderón

Accelerates Academic Language Development

The Oxford Illustrated Science Dictionary supports and promotes success in science by making academic vocabulary accessible to high-beginning and intermediate language learners. This dictionary is flexible enough to be used in whole-group, small-group, and independent learning modules and serves as a bridge between picture dictionaries and learner dictionaries.

Each dictionary entry includes:
Academic word
Part of speech
Pronunciation
Simple definition
Illustration
Work contextualized in a sentence