Your Name writes “Harry Potter and lots of other characters from children’s classics, old and new, are helping kids learn the meaning of new words.
A new edition of The Oxford Primary Dictionary, due out later this month, features hundreds of quotes from books by authors including JK Rowling, Philip Pullman, Roald Dahl and CS Lewis. It’s using Harry Potter and other top kids’ book titles to help children with reading and writing…here’s an example: puzzling words like ‘insolent’ – meaning rude and insulting – are explained, in this case using Potter’s rival Draco Malfoy as an example.”
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