All I know is that, at two, I was actually doing fairly well at reading, but the alphabet was still giving me trouble. I wasn't able to reliably look things up in the dictionary until, y'know, three years ago or so.
Seriously, though, I think that "finding a definition in an alphabetized list" is a significantly harder task than even "being able to read and understand a definition (written on an appropriate level).
My kids' dictionary, I think, did have "germ", "temperature", and "peanut", but I don't know if it had "vaccine".
In any case, "peanut" is a word which, I think, and barring allergy issues, is best defined by handing an example to the questioner.
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Date: 2007-08-23 12:14 am (UTC)Seriously, though, I think that "finding a definition in an alphabetized list" is a significantly harder task than even "being able to read and understand a definition (written on an appropriate level).
My kids' dictionary, I think, did have "germ", "temperature", and "peanut", but I don't know if it had "vaccine".
In any case, "peanut" is a word which, I think, and barring allergy issues, is best defined by handing an example to the questioner.