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

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

In this worksheet, children will learn about a few common resource materials and how to search for information in them alphabetically.

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

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

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.

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

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

Kids will flex their vocabulary muscles to practice using certain nouns as verbs. How do meanings differ when some words are used as different parts of speech

There are many ways to figure out the meanings of unknown words. Through this worksheet, students record unknown words and find out their meaning using a variety of strategies.

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

Help your students review root words so they can analyze unfamiliar words and figure out the meaning without using a dictionary. In this worksheet, students will identify the root of each word containing suffixes and prefixes.

Kids will practice listening and speaking skills in this interactive vocabulary activity. Students will pair up and take turns responding to questions about difficult words they've encountered and what they learned by using context clues and a dictionary.

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

This worksheet will help strengthen your students' word definition skills.

Determine the correct definition and strengthen dictionary skills with this foundational worksheet!

Children expand their vocabulary with this hands-on fill-in-the-blank activity.

Build your child's vocabulary with a fun fill in the blank activity, all about adjectives. She'll find the right "F" adjective to complete these sentences.

Review common vocabulary words with this fun and creative color-by-number worksheet!