Graham Elsdon looks at what context means for students of literature The Lion King has become a seminal childhood text. A Black Beauty (as it were) for the Disney generation. A proto-Hamlet for the babyccino brigade. I watched it with my children, smugly noting the Shakespearean echoes. The fratricidal Scar-Claudius, the three hyena-witches, and the […]
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Last year I blogged a couple of times on dictionaries in the classroom (see the links below if you missed them) A picture is worth a thousand words: Dictionaries in the classroom (part 1) Word origins: Dictionaries in the classroom (part 2) Since then, I’ve been chatting to Vineeta Gupta, Head of Children’s Dictionaries at Oxford University Press. I wanted to know more about how dictionaries are put together. How do children’s dictionary publishers establish criteria […]
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