Improve your grandchild's reading and writing skills with this interactive speaking dictionary. The Franklin Children's Talking Dictionary & Spell Checker ($49.95) contains more than 40,000 easy-to-understand definitions that are pronounced for effective vocabulary learning. The automatic phonetic spell corrector turns "nolij" into "knowledge" while an animated handwriting guide demonstrates print and cursive styles. Includes a rhyme finder, a homophone guide (to, too, two), five word-building games, and a vocabulary word list that can be created by the user.

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