Merriam-Webster’s Elementary Dictionary

It is easy for my 9 year old grandson to use

Good information with pictures for kids. May be bit heavy for my almost 6 yr son. But am sure he will use it next few years.

I purchased this for my grandson, 2nd grade. The font of the print is perfect for his age. Other dictionaries on our shelf was little over whelming for his search. This edition miraculously inspired him to search for words to create his own sentences without constantly asking me how to spell a word unfamiliar to him. Great choice. Whew!! Relief!! Independence growing!!

I bought this dictionary for my 2nd grader after an assignment to define spelling words. The definitions are simple and concise, making it a perfect book for my daughter. Some pictures as well to help make connections.

Beautiful dictionary. Full of color and letters are big and legible. Has all the words my 4th grader needs to find. Sometimes I use it as well. I looked everywhere for a dictionary we could both read easily. So glad I chose this one instead of a traditional dictionary for school.

My granddaughter started authoring stories as soon as she learned to read. She is now authoring short stories and assembling them into books with age-appropriate words for her age. This book will excite her love of words even more and improve her communication by moving her skills beyond phonetic spelling. This dictionary is well laid out and reinforces her knowledge of words she knows and generates interest in higher levels of language. For the word lover or the language challenge child, this dictionary and a caring guide (parent, grandparent, or teacher) will increase the success the child will have.

Got tired of kids asking what does this mean. My moms response was always, look in the dictionary. So, got this dictionary and it is great for them to locate the words pretty easily. Great illustrations, includes the root words and info on where the word originated.

A quality dictionary for my 8 1/2-year-old granddaughter who is interested in the origins of words. Great training for learning how to do research. The encyclopedia is next on my list.

This one is a bit advanced for our 7 year old first grader but he loves the pictures and is using it already. He easily figured out how to use it.

This book has proven valuable even with a few words missing (no dictionary has all the words, does it?) However, we are using this for homeschool purposes and imagine my surprise, while teaching about writing and Columbus and the Taino people, that the words “rhetoric” and “indigenous” (respectively) do NOT exist in this book. I don’t fault anyone- it’s not like the entire English language could ever fit in here, however, the word “tweet” (as in the tweets you add to your Twitter account) IS listed, so I’m left wondering who prioritized social media over other words. It is still a valuable resource- my children are learning how to research, investigate, critique, and question articles and their “sources”. Today’s journalists don’t even do that today it seems, and my kids are 7 and 4. For that, I’m giving it 4 stars. I’ll review my opinion in a year if anything else surfaces.