Oxford English Dictionary for Schools

Extensive and accessible secondary school dictionary for curriculum-focused language support

The Oxford English Dictionary for Schools is carefully targeted to support secondary school students with their independent reference skills, to improve their spelling, punctuation, and grammar, and to build vocabulary. Ideal support at school and home for GCSEs and Controlled Assessments.Carefully targeted to support secondary school students with their independent reference skills, this English Dictionary for Schools has clear signposting, an accessible design, and expertly levelled definitions, making it the perfect language resource for schoolwork and GCSE preparation. Key features include: • Vocabulary geared towards the KS3 curriculum and GCSEs • Support with language context including carefully levelled example sentences from the best children's books and teen fiction • Subject-specific vocabulary labels for cross-curricular use across school subjects • Topic panels for additional language support, especially in grammar, spelling, and punctuation • Related words, word families, and antonyms • Extended word histories for wider language reference • Powered by the Oxford Children's Corpus - a unique electronic database of millions of words written by and for children