Description
Fully up to date for the twenty-first century, The New First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy lists very important facts in twenty-one subject areas to advertise successful learning in kids.
Child education expert E. D. Hirsch Jr. cuts throughout the wealth of information to be had nowadays to focus on terms that a child will have to be conversant in by the end of sixth grade. With nearly 3,000 concise definitions and including 250 new entries (like Harry Potter, centaurs, northern lights, and World Series), this popular sourcebook makes it easy for children to develop into literate in mythology, literature, U.S. history, science and technology, and more.