Dictionary Lesson Plans

Students use their dictionary skills to play a game. For this dictionary skills lesson, students receive a fish with a number on it. The number corresponds with a word on the board. The students look in the dictionary to find the entry word, guide word, syllables, part of speech and definition of the word and record it on their paper.

Students explore all the avenues of why its important to use a dictionary to find out what a word means. The functions of a dictionary is discussed in depth within this lesson. They create a Spanish/English Picture Dictionary to illustrate the important use of a dictionary.

Ninth graders examine dictionary skills and participate in a class discussion about lyrical poetry. They examine and discuss the different sections/quartiles of the dictionary, and identify which quartile a list of words would be found. Students then read the poem "Ode to a Nightingale," and identify the characteristics the poem has that makes it a lyrical poem.

Students identify the features and attributes for a data dictionary. They also practice spatial awareness and creating their own data dictionary with the template included in the lesson. Students then connect objectives of prec farming and the building of a good data dictionary. Finally, they identify metadata and file storage management.

Third graders practice dictionary skills. They use a digital camera and insert pictures from a floppy disk into a document. They play a game in which they are handed an anonymous definition of each other and must find each other in class.

Students create dictionary of terms for citizens of a democracy, using events and biographies from both their state's history and U.S. history.

Learners explore vocabulary by analyzing the current events. In this dictionary addition lesson, students discuss a news topic about word additions into the Oxford Dictionary. Learners complete a list of activities about the story ranging from word search to fill in the blank.

Second graders explore the purpose of a dictionary. In this library media lesson, 2nd graders explore My First Dictionary and identify guidewords, entry words, and captions. Students list ways they can use the dictionary.

Third graders review how to use a dictionary. In this study skills instructional activity, 3rd graders practice using a dictionary to find definitions, syllabication, parts of speech, synonyms, and antonyms.

Students determine how to use a bilingual dictionary. In this dictionary use lesson, students practice researching and translating all parts of speech using a bilingual dictionary. They use this work to increase their own vocabulary and to learn the dictionary abbreviations for words such as transitive verb, pronoun, masculine, and feminine.