Oxford Illustrated Science Dictionary

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