The Visual Thesaurus, developed in 1998 by Thinkmap Inc is an excellent way to help children who have difficulties with reading comprehension. In fact, a study that took place with eighth grade students with learning disabilities discovered a significant improvement in reading comprehension.
With this thesaurus you can find over 145,00 English words and 115,00 meanings, see how each word is used differently in parts of speech, find example sentences that express the meaning of the word, discover 39,00 proper nouns such as Mozart, checks your spelling for errors, you can hear the word if you're wondering about pronunciation and much more.
The Visual Thesaurus has different benefits for several age groups, from elementary school children, through college level, and even has wonderful benefits for people who are learning English as a second language. In the online edition, you can use the thesaurus in several different languages, including French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German.
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