School Dictionary for Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Kiribati

This dictionary has been specially written for children who use English at school in Vanuatu and Solomon Islands. Its aim is to encourage them to become confident dictionary users. Therefore, the words chosen are those they are most likely to encounter.

It includes:

• many words that reflect their island lifestyle, such as atoll, cyclone and crown-of-thorns
• words that are important in their culture or history, such as nakamal, blackbirding and lapita
• words that they are likely to come across in their school textbooks or newspaper articles, such as part of speech, ordinal number and pollution.

The definitions are written in a straight forward style, with examples to show how the words are used in sentences or common phrases. The guide to pronunciation, given for each word, has been written without using any special symbols. It has been specially designed to offer help in a way that will be accessible to children from Vanuatu or Solomon Islands.