dc.description.abstract | This work has the objective to highlight the didactic role of the academic dictionary, selecting some lexical resources that permit to contribute and to enlarge students lexical competence in the final grades of the Elementary school. From the beginning of the study field of didactic lexicography and the propositions of the Portuguese Language National Curriculum Parameters. We highlight the importance of the lexic learning process. Based on this theoretical referential, We have done a review of five dictionaries, selected by the National Plan of Didactic Book of 2006 (NPDB), considering six categories, which make reference to lexic entries different uses and meaning: Variety of perception, examples, marks of use, locutions, synonymous and antonymous, We have also verified how the study of the lexic happens in four Portuguese Language didactic books, selected by the NPDB with the function of showing how this study is limited and not much developed in these books. Finally, we elaborated an evaluation of each | en |