Recommend me a KS2 Dictionary please!

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I am finding the DSs, Y4 and 6 are needing to look stuff up, especially for SATS work so it needs to be a proper one with meaning, whether it's a verb, adjective, etc and perhaps even the word's origin; so we're not talking a cartoon picture and a one word explanation here!

Any ideas!

I would go for Oxford. There are "school" dictionaries and "junior" dictionaries.

Have a look at the sample pages here for the Oxford School Dictionary.
If she's OK with that, I'd get that one, as it will last longer than the junior version. (aimed at 11-14s I think)
£6.58 from Amazon

If you don't like the look of that, there are sample pages from their junior dictionary here

HTH

Book People Offer £12.99 for Oxford School dictionary + thesaurus + electronic/DVD thingie.

I use the Collins school dictionary for KS2. it's aimed at 10-year-olds+ so includes a decent selection of words and will last them into the early stages of KS3 at least.

We have an oxford school dictionary and it often doesn't have definitions of words in 9 - 12 age group books that the DC are reading. If they are working at home I would use an online dictionary for this reason.