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Dictionary skills are an important part of learning to read and write. Help your little learner understand the different parts of a dictionary entry.

Dictionary Skills

Use this resource to give your students practice using a dictionary&rsquo;s guide words to correctly locate a word.

Dictionary Detective

Children learn to identify and use the formatting of a typical dictionary definition in this useful reference worksheet.

Using the Dictionary

Your scholars will break down their vocabulary words with inflected endings into the base form in order to successfully locate a dictionary entry.

Reference the Dictionary

Dig into your dictionary skills! Use this resource to guide students as they determine the right word to look up.

Dig into the Dictionary 2

Students will practice using dictionary guide words by matching words to the pages they would appear on.

Dictionary Skills: Alphabetizing Guide Words

Use this resource to support your students as they become familiar with removing inflected endings in order to find a dictionary entry.

Dig into the Dictionary 3

When reading, we all encounter unknown words at times. But how do we figure them out? In this lesson, students learn how to become a “human dictionary” by using a variety of strategies to figure out the meaning of unknown words. 


Human Dictionary

Use this exercise with your students to review alphabetizing and practice using guide words to determine a word&rsquo;s correct location in the dictionary.

Using the Dictionary Guide Words

Students build vocabulary and spelling skills through this engaging lesson. After brainstorming words that start with the letter A, students use words and pictures to create their own "A" dictionaries. 

My "A" Dictionary

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words.

Glossary: Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words.

Vocabulary Cards: Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words.

Help your students learn new vocabulary by creating their own picture dictionaries! Students will quickly master their new words with this handy chart that has them logging the word, a picture, a definition, and a sentence that puts the word into context.

Picture Dictionary

This lesson will help students explore using a dictionary to figure out tricky words with suffixes. Use as a stand-alone activity or a support for the Understanding Academic Vocabulary in a Nonfiction Text lesson.

Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words

Use this resource to support your students as they work to break down words with inflected endings into the base form in order to successfully find a word’s definition.

Dig into the Dictionary 1

Kids will sharpen their dictionary skills with this challenging guide words sort. By sorting a group of words into their correct dictionary locations, young readers will gain confidence and dexterity in their reading and vocabulary abilities.

Guide Words Sort

Kids spell words and break apart multi-syllable words to win the golden dictionary!

Spelling Multi-Syllable Words: Floyd Danger

Use this resource to give your students practice using guide words to determine a word&rsquo;s location in the dictionary.

Identify the Guide Words

Instead of looking a word up in the dictionary, practice using context clues to find the meaning of unknown words.

Using Context Clues

With a dictionary, kids will use the different definitions of "right" in sentences of their own and illustrate its different meanings by drawing pictures.

Words With Multiple Meanings

In this lesson, students will practice defining words by making their own vocabulary cards. This lesson plan can be used alone or with the Mini Dictionaries lesson plan.

Dictionaries & Definitions

Smaller dictionaries that are totally relevant to the material being read? In this lesson, students will learn that these miraculously really do exist and go by the name of glossaries! 

Mini Dictionaries!

Can you write a list of irregular plural nouns just by reading the singular nouns?  It's a great way to practice dictionary and reference skills, too!

List of Irregular Plural Nouns

Help your students correctly spell homophones in sentences! They’ll use context clues to determine the correct homophone spelling and then check their answers with a dictionary.

Spelling Homophones

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

Vocabulary Think & Seek

Students will be able to understand words without a dictionary after they work through this exercise teaching how to determine the meaning of words using roots, prefixes, and suffixes.


Determine Meaning Using Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

When children encounter new words, they don't need to make a beeline for the dictionary. Train them to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.

Context Clue Matching

Through creative and engaging activities, your students will explore and learn about landforms. In this lesson, they will make their own mini dictionary of landforms.

All About Landforms

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Dictionaries & Definitions.

Glossary: Dictionaries & Definitions

Making flash cards is something done by students of all ages. Help your kids develop good study habits with this lesson plan, which will teach them how to use flash cards and a dictionary to learn new vocabulary.

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