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All About Reading

Pirate Dictionary

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
Shiver me timbers, this here resource is a great way to teach young landlubbers to speak the language of the briny deep. Including over 30 different words and phrases, complete with definitions and guide words, this dictionary will have...
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TLS Books

Dictionary Skills Review

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Why do we use a dictionary? Your scholars will tell you why while demonstrating their dictionary skills. In addition to stating the purpose of using dictionaries, they will also show what they know about guide words, alphabetizing, and...
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Curated OER

Dictionary Practice 4

For Students 5th - 6th
Verify that your pupils can use the dictionary to determine the meaning of words. Class members locate nine words, record the dictionary definition, and note the page number on which they found the information. This plan is originally...
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Curated OER

Beyond the Dictionary: Meaningful Word Study

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Engaging lesson and activity ideas that grow pupils' word knowledge in all content areas.
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Curated OER

Dictionary Word Sort

For Students 6th - 7th
In this dictionary word sort worksheet, students play a game identifying where words in the dictionary would be. Students use different cards and identify where a certain word would be on the page.
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Curated OER

Wrong Dictionary Words Worksheet Creator

For Students 6th - 9th
In this language arts learning exercise creator, students examine a dictionary page of words and indicate which words should not be there. They work on pages which are teacher created and controlled as to the number of errors and...
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Curated OER

Dictionary Practice 2- Test Your Vocabulary Skills

For Students 5th - 6th
For this dictionary vocabulary worksheet, students locate the 9 listed words in the dictionary. They write a definition for the word, and write a notation of the page number where the word was found. Words include help, honesty,...
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Scholastic

Frindle Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
"Who says a pen has to be called a pen? Why not call it a frindle?" Inspired by this quote from the award-winning novel written by Andrew Celements, this lesson allows children to invent their own terms for common classroom objects,...
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Curated OER

Using a Dictionary - Prefixes

For Students 4th - 6th
Help your students add variety to their vocabulary with this dictionary activity, which includes five questions about prefixes (ir, pre, re, sub, post). Students will not only work with their dictionary reference skills, but learn the...
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Curated OER

Using a Dictionary - Comparing Words

For Students 6th - 9th
Equipped with a dictionary and a purpose, students test the meanings of four word pairs, determining if they are synonyms, antonyms, rhymes, or several other word relationships. Students can practice their dictionary skills and their...
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Curated OER

Using a Dictionary - Prefixes

For Students 6th - 9th
In this research skills worksheet, students use a dictionary to find the answers to the 5 questions on the page. Each question pertains to prefixes.
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Curated OER

Using a Dictionary - Sounds

For Students 5th - 7th
In this research skills worksheet, students use a dictionary to answer the 4 questions on the worksheet. All of the questions have to do with word sounds.
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Curated OER

Revising Writing: Plain English

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Eschew obfuscation! Using dictionaries, writers revise a complicated text so that it reads more simply and improves the clarity of the passage. Focusing on word meanings, they revise the sample worksheets and then present their...
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Amazon Web Services

Idiom Dictionary

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Examining idioms is a peace of cake when using this graphic organizer! Here, grammarians identify an idiom and use it in a sentence. Then they investigate its literal meaning versus its figurative meaning, and accompany each one with a...
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Curated OER

Desert Vocabulary Dictionary or Encyclopedia Activity

For Students 4th - 6th
In this desert vocabulary activity, students look up the definitions of 10 words in either the dictionary or encyclopedia. They write the definition of words associated with the desert in the table on the activity.
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Education Center

Word Wise

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Warm up your class at the start of the year by checking their ability to read and unpack dictionary entries. This worksheet asks pupils to pick apart a sentence that uses some pretty advanced vocabulary by using three dictionary...
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Curated OER

"Me" Resource

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners elucidate themselves by writing up to six entries in different formats. Some formatting choices include a dictionary, encyclopedia, or atlas entry, a magazine article, a newspaper article, and a table of contents. Some...
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Curated OER

Breaking News: OMG, LOL, FYI Now in Oxford English Dictionary (26th March, 2011)

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore vocabulary by analyzing the current events. In this dictionary addition lesson, students discuss a news topic about word additions into the Oxford Dictionary. Students complete a list of activities about the story...
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Curated OER

Using a Dictionary--Definitions

For Students 4th - 6th
In this dictionary worksheet, students look up the following five words to find the definitions of each word in order to choose the correct multiple choice answer that correctly completes each statement: esteem, chalcedony, serene,...
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Curated OER

Using a Dictionary--Definitions

For Students 5th - 6th
In this dictionary worksheet, students look up the following five words in order to choose the correct multiple choice answer that completes each statement: indolent, renovated, intangible, contrite and irrefutable.
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Curated OER

Spelling Connections: Grade 6: Dictionary Respellings

For Students 6th - 7th
For this grade 6 spelling worksheet, students read 20 sentences with a spelling word written in bold type as a dictionary pronunciation. Students write the correct spelling word. There is no word list.
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Scholastic

What’s the Good Word? Etymology Project Guidelines

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Who named the shapes, or the days of the week? Should words be removed from the dictionary if they're no longer commonly used? Are there too many words in the English language? Language arts students explore these and additional...
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Curated OER

Using a Dictionary - Meanings

For Students 5th - 8th
In this research skills worksheet, students use a dictionary to find the meaning of words. Students answer 4 multiple choice, word definition questions.
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Curated OER

Using a Dictionary- Definitions

For Students 5th - 6th
In this dictionary use activity, students find the definitions of 5 words. They answer multiple choice questions that show they know the meaning of taciturn, ricotta, dust jacket, palindrome, and labyrinth.

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