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How to Choose a Dictionary

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Many people ask us what dictionary we recommend. I will tell you our recommendations in a minute, but first let me ask you four questions we considered in making the choice for our classrooms.

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Students’ favorite dictionary: colorful and frequently used.

1. Do you like it?

This seems silly, but it’s really important. If you (or your child) likes the dictionary, you will use it more often. Your child will linger over it, flipping pages and discovering new words. If it is too heavy or the letters are hard to read or you wish you had gotten the other one with the prettier pictures? Then that dictionary will sit on your shelf. And “on the shelf” is the wrong place for a dictionary.

2. Is it American or British English?

Dictionaries that say “Webster” have American English (A.E.) and dictionaries that say “Oxford” have British English (B.E.). (Just to confuse you, Oxford does have some American dictionaries, clearly labeled).

If it doesn’t say Webster or Oxford, look up words that mean different things in the two countries. An A.E. dictionary will tell you that a cot is a roll-away or camp bed. B.E. says it is a bed for a baby. A.E. says that a torch is a burning stick used for light. B.E. says that a torch is a battery powered, handheld light source.

The spelling of some words will be different, too: color, center, and realize in A.E.; colour, centre, and realise in B.E.

Different spellings and definitions are why we recommend an A.E. dictionary.

3. Is it the right level?

It is tempting to get the advanced dictionary which will have every word you might ever need to look up. However, a dictionary written for children will define a word differently than one written for adults. There are plenty of resources online for looking up definitions for adults, and technical or professional words you encounter are often most quickly understood through a Wikipedia search, believe it or not. But there are two important reasons for choosing a children’s or student’s dictionary no matter what your age:

First, they quickly give you the definitions you need. Sure, some people need to know that a flower is a reproductive part of a plant containing a pistil and stamens. But if you don’t know that English word yet, you probably just need to know its the pretty, colored thing on plants.

Second, many of the words in a children’s dictionary are the ones skipped over when studying English in a classroom. American children learn the word “moccasin” early on in school, often when they discuss Thanksgiving in kindergarten or first grade. We don’t usually put it on the tests for adults like the TOEFL because adults rarely need to know the name for Native American shoes. Yet moccasin may be harder than college-level words like omnipotent because it can’t be broken down into familiar root words, prefixes, and suffixes.

For one week, keep track of the words you want defined – keep a piece of paper in your pocket, perhaps. When you go to the bookstore, compare the definitions in first, children’s, student, and collegiate dictionaries. Which gives you the information you need?

4. Is it well written?

Yes, someone wrote all those little bits and pieces, and some people/companies are better at it than others. I personally like Merriam-Webster’s definitions best, most of the time. They strike a good balance between giving the most readable definition and capturing the emotion and other details of a word that live beyond the exact meaning.

This may be hard to judge if you don’t feel confident in your own English skills, but try a word that you are familiar with and that has an emotional or artistic meaning, like “beauty” or “regret.” Try some basic nouns like “cat” to see if they capture the important details of the thing. Finally, look at the difference between synonyms: “house” is the physical building, but “home” feels more personal and also can be a living place that is not a building (for example, animals have homes but not houses).

What do I do now?

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“Utensil” is quickly understood with pictures.

Go to a bookstore, pull a couple of dictionaries off the shelves, and ask yourself these four questions. We have more than a dozen dictionaries in our classrooms but the one we turn to most often, the one we usually recommend, is DK Merriam-Webster’s Children’s Dictionary. The definitions are high quality and the colorful, picture-filled pages make it a pleasure to use. For both children and adults, it’s nice to be able to open the pages and see a photo that quickly communicates a familiar idea like utensil. You may decide a different dictionary is better for you.

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Book Review: Cradle Me

Cradle Me
Cradle Me by Debby Slier

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This board book has several features which earn it high ratings and a place in my ESL classroom: It features photos of children in their cradleboards from almost a dozen Native American nations. The first page encourages readers to say each word (smiling, thinking, sleepy) in their own language. The words themselves are state-of-being words that help beginning students with self-expression and communicating needs and wants.

Perhaps most importantly: although this book is clearly a celebration of an education about Native cultures, it does not separate them from every other culture’s life. Many of my ESL students (and perhaps too many US-born students) think that Native American cultures are a thing of the past, not a part of the world today. Books that focus on the historic contributions of Native Americans, while having an important place on an educator’s bookshelf, may also accidentally help perpetuate that belief. The approach of Cradle Me is an important balance, showing readers from all cultures that Native American children are important simply as children, with both modern lives and long-standing traditions, children who can be happy or sad or thoughtful, without always being a monolithic group who spend their time showing Europeans how to grow food or find the Pacific Ocean. Instead, choosing one thing many cultures have in common also allows readers to see the differences between them.

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Book Review: Count the Monkeys

Count the MonkeysCount the Monkeys by Mac Barnett

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Hooray for Mac Barnett, whose varied styles mean there is surely something among his books to appeal to each child. As a sneaky teacher, I can then get my students to read more broadly by saying, “You loved that book by Barnett? You might like this other [completely unrelated] story he wrote…” This one is more hyper than my beloved Chloe and the Lion, yet marginally more sane. Marginally: we’re still talking a book that incorporates king cobras, beekeepers, and surprisingly few monkeys.

Each page directly advises the reader on interacting with the subjects – move slowly around snakes, zig zig away from alligators, etc. Some of the wildlife advice seems more folklore than science, but having had a spate of students afraid of nature this past year, I appreciate a book which supplies them with a way to exercise control over their environment without explicitly mentioning danger. For the majority of students, however, these pages will just be outright silly – can you turn the page while your eyes are covered?

Kevin Cornell’s bright illustrations (Dear Disney-Hyperion, please include illustration information in your colophons; they are quite interesting to your young readers) have a movement and a weight which go well with Barnett’s text. I found myself strangely fascinated by the variety of lumberjack noses, and it is just that kind of random interest which can make a book loved by a child.

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Book Review: 13 Words

13 Words13 Words by Lemony Snicket

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Let’s be clear right now, because I don’t want you confused by the charming blue bird on the cover into thinking that this is a beginning vocabulary book. No, this is a Lemony Snicket book. That means that after “teaching” us the word bird, we are confronted with the second word: Despondent. The bird is despondent. Too much, too soon? Okay, Snicket backs off and gives us cake and dog. However, the reader would be wise to listen to the little voice telling them that words like haberdashery and panache are lurking around the corner.

Maria Kalman’s brightly surreal art is a perfect match for Snicket’s prose. There is something in-jokey about the illustrations and I found myself searching in vain for figures from American Gothic or the Boy in Blue. The bizarre characters leaving you feeling like anything is possible in this world, and isn’t that great?

Would the art be quite so appealing to a young reader? That is my fear with primitive styles where perspective and proportion are shifted in a way that appears to be an imitations of a child’s painting. It is the right choice for this world where a bird must paint eleven ladders ten colors, but it leaves me wondering if this is one of those books that adults will appreciate more than children do. Snicket’s writing always has humor designed to particularly appeal to adult readers, but I simply don’t know if this one has the kid-appeal to match.

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Starting Over

Mistakes.

We Two Tutoring students reading this will already know the #1 rule of our classrooms: Make Mistakes. If you aren’t making mistakes, then you aren’t pushing yourself. You aren’t trying new, uncertain things. You aren’t learning.

Students must make mistakes.

Another, unspoken rule is this: We Are All Students. Learning doesn’t end at the classroom door. It doesn’t end on Friday afternoon. It doesn’t end at the diploma.

Life always has new challenges and we must learn in order to conquer them.

I began this blog and this website and promptly forgot those two lessons. As an English tutor, it is really hard to put out written work which might contain mistakes, and so I made the biggest mistake of all: I stopped. I created a new challenge in my professional life but I backed away from learning from it. I backed away from making any of those lesser-but-necessary mistakes. My brave students walk through the door day after day and hand over their written work or engage in conversation knowing that they are there to reveal their flaws. How vulnerable they make themselves, and I wasn’t good at doing that in return.

So with the new year, I’m renewing my commitment to writing about my tutoring here. I’ll be sharing resources, tips and advice in a way that may be flawed but will at least follow those most important rules of our classrooms.

I’ll make mistakes, and we can learn from them together.

Book Review: 31 Uses for a Mom

Next Sunday is Mother’s Day; here’s a funny little book about those special women.

31 Uses For A Mom31 Uses For A Mom by Harriet Ziefert

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

An excellent book for adult ESL students, this is simply a list of things a mother might do for her children. With just 42 words, students can look up every single unfamiliar word if need be – and those words are not just basic vocabulary. The book’s brevity will also allow readers to take some time to figure out the moments of humor that a native speaker may spot instantly. Finally, it is a nice detail to match the number of days in May, the month of Mothers’ Day.

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President’s Day

Monday will be Presidents’ Day, a federal holiday created in 1880 as Washington’s Birthday. George Washington was born February 22, 1732. Over time, that holiday was combined with the observance of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. Presidents’ Day is observed on the third Monday of February. Most federal holidays are observed on Monday or Friday to allow a three-day weekend.

Abraham Lincoln, who just celebrated his 200th birthday, was born February 12, 1809. A hero of President Obama, the White House celebrated Lincoln’s birthday with a speech by the President and re-opening the renovated Ford’s Theatre, where President Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.

The White House’s new website includes a slideshow of U.S. Presidents with links to their biographies.

In Massachusetts, you can visit President John F. Kennedy’s birthplace, the Kennedy library, and several sites in Quincy related to Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.

Many businesses also have good sales on this day, especially car dealers. Perhaps you’ll find some good bargains at one of the many stores in Coolidge Corner. This Brookline neighborhood, which includes President Kennedy‘s birthplace,  shares a name with another president with Massachusetts ties, President Calvin Coolidge, although it was not named after him.