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The New First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Your Child Needs to Know | 
| Author: E. D. Hirsch
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 27232
Media: Paperback
Edition: 269
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0618408533
Dewey Decimal Number: 031
UPC: 046442408530
EAN: 9780618408535
ASIN: 0618408533
Publication Date: August 30, 2004
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Product Description
Fully updated for the twenty-first century, The New First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy gathers together all of the essential facts that youngsters should have at their fingertips for school success. The child education expert E. D. Hirsch, Jr., cuts through the wealth of information available today to highlight those terms that a child should be familiar with by the end of sixth grade. With nearly 3,000 concise definitions, including 250 new entries (Harry Potter, centaurs, northern lights, and World Series, to name a few), this popular sourcebook makes finding information easy. Here is everything your child needs to know to be culturally literate in 21 different subject areas, from mythology to literature to U.S. history to science and technology, and much more.
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| Customer Reviews:
The Dictionary Every American Should Own May 12, 2008
JP (Los Angeles, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This dictionary is essential for everyone, not just children. This should be in every household and in every classroom, it has the basics organized in sections such as language arts, math, science,and visual and performing arts. Every child should be taught this information before graduating from 8th grade and every adult with a college education really should know all these facts, ideas, theories, and movements.
very pleased March 3, 2008
P. Stemper
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is in great condition and it arrived on time. I'm very happy with my purchase.
Best book ever January 27, 2007
chrysanthemum
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I had the first edition and now the second edition is equally as enlightening. This is a valuable book,
Not Only Your Child January 20, 2007
M. Grate (Tallahassee, FL)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a valuable item for all New Citizens as well as for any adult who's had a "whole word" education. I give a copy to any new colleagues from a non-English speaking country.
This is a useful book for high school freshman. September 25, 2005
J. Hughes (Iowa)
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
I was surprised to discover how many common proverbs and phrases
are confounding to high school freshman. This book has helped me to better understand the cultural awareness that these
students have not yet acquired. It has also been a useful
tool for working to bridge that gap.
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