BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Dictionaries and Indexes
This Skillswise site focuses on using dictionaries and indexes. Included are a video about why using these tools is important, fact sheets and worksheets about using them, quizzes on the information presented, and a dictionary game. The...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Little Explorers Picture Dictionary
Delve into this wonderfully illustrated and comprehensive picture dictionary. Research up to 1,905 illustrated entries. Each word is used in a meaningful sentence.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
This is a basic crossword puzzle dictionary with an explanation of how to use it. It also offers information and a comparison of three other online crossword dictionaries that have extra features: Wordsmyth, Amo's Online Crossword Puzzle...
Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Common Core Standards Dictionaries and Glossaries
View a lesson on using dictionaries and glossaries to determine the meaning of words. Test your skills using Test Mode or Game Mode.
Other
Elemadrid: English Spanish Dictionary
A very effective resource tool in helping both the teacher and the student define unfamiliar words. This online dictionary translates a word from one language to another, in a wide range of languages. Can easily change the languages by...
Other
My Spanish English Picture Dictionary
A bilingual picture dictionary with a sample of useful words. Good for students learning Spanish or for Spanish-speaking English language learners who want to practice English vocabulary.
Other
Beacon Educator: Reading Educator: Dictionary Game
Develop better vocabulary and dictionary skills while playing this fun dictionary game with students in small groups. Click on the video link to watch the game being played in a classroom. L.9-10.4c References
Other
Uncp: Using a Dictionary
Curious about what a dictionary might tell you beyond how to spell a word? This site will walk you through the basics of using any dictionary, as well as suggest why you might want to consult one on a regular basis. L.9-10.4c References,...
Savvas Learning
Pearson Education: The Longman Vocabulary Website: Dictionary Skills
How are your dictionary skills? Check out this site to learn how to improve your dictionary skills. This site features exercises grouped into three different levels.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Scrabble Word Finder
This article discusses using a Scrabble Word Finder. It focuses on the Your Dictionary Word Finder including explaining ways to use it and what is available through it.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
The Center for Mathematics and Science Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides an interesting and easy-to-use dictionary of the history and meaning of many measurement terms. Metric, International, and...
British Library
British Library: Language & Literature: Dictionaries and Meanings
Article discusses the history of English dictionaries over a five-hundred-year period. Includes selections from Samuel Johnson's dictionary of 1755 and the Oxford English Dictionary. With useful comments about the origins of words,...
Other
Philippine on Line Dictionary
Use this online dictionary to translate to and from English and three languages used in the Philippines -- Tagalog, Cebuano, and Hiligaynon. Note that you select the "From" language, not "To," as you might expect.
Other
The Internet Picture Dictionary: German
An online easy to use German picture dictionary. Selections can be made by typing in the word you wish to look up or you can choose a category.
Other
The Internet Picture Dictionary: French
This site is an easy to use French picture dictionary. Selections can be made by typing in the word you wish to look up or you can choose a category.
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: English: Reading: Dictionaries and Indexes Quiz: Level One [Pdf]
Quiz testing basic alphabetization and dictionary skills required for real-world application. Three levels of difficulty with answers provided.
Other
The Internet Picture Dictionary: Italian
An online easy to use Italian picture dictionary. Selections can be made by typing in the word you wish to look up or you can choose a category.
Other
The Internet Picture Dictionary: Spanish
An online easy to use Spanish picture dictionary. Selections can be made by typing in the word you wish to look up or you can choose a category.
Lingolex
Lingolex.com: The 100 Most Used Verbs in Spanish
This site by Lingolex has some of the most widely used verbs in the Spanish language at the beginner level.
Other
Visuwords: Visuwords Online Graphical Dictionary and Thesaurus
Visuwords is an online graphical dictionary which you must see to believe! It is highly interactive and allows you to create diagrams, to drag and drop, pass over words to see their meanings, and much much more. It can be as easy or as...
Other
Menno Link: Low German Dictionary: Guide to the Use of the Dictionary
A dictionary of Low German, a language used by the Mennonites.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Use, Elegance, and National Identity in Johnson's Dictionary
An analytical discussion of Johnson's use of literary technique in his dictionary. It includes notes and bibliography.
Philosophy Pages
Philosophy Pages: A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms & Names
Alphabetized dictionary offering "concise guide to technical terms and personal names often encountered in the study of philosophy." Brief entries cross-linked to further entries. Quite useful.
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Inter Math: Dictionary
Use this online dictionary of math terms to get definitions and examples of a wide variety of math terms.