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Dictionary Research Work

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Explore new words and examine an unusual alphabet book with your young scholars. They are introduced to an alphabet book containing many unfamiliar words. They are then guided as they search for definitions in a dictionary. They then...
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Organizer
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Literature Study Guide - Moby Dick

For Students 7th - 9th
Complete with a reading schedule, literature question page, and supplementary list of literary activities, this book report form on Moby Dick would be an good resource for your junior high or high school class. The guide includes...
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Literature Study Guide - The Hobbit

For Students 7th - 9th
With several online resources for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, as well as many reading and literary analysis activities, this novel study guide is a great way to keep your young readers organized during a book report. The guide includes...
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Dictionary Details

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
This clever lesson has students practice finding a variety of types of information in a dictionary by playing a "Dictionary Scavenger Hunt" game. Students must use the guide words at the top of a dictionary page, determine what part of...
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Words to Guide You

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students discover how to use guide words when locating words in the dictionary.
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Finding Words Quickly

For Students 7th - 8th
In this finding words quickly worksheet, students observe and critique a "Macmillan Essential Dictionary" to answer twenty questions on how to utilize guide words.
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Scream to Scrubber

For Students 4th - 5th
In this dictionary skills worksheet, students will tell which words on their list of 20 s words fall on, before, or after the page with the guide words "scream" and "scrubber". Then students will alphabetize the words.
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Haymow To Headrest

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this haymow to headrest worksheet, students, after locating the guide words in a dictionary, determine if the twenty words listed are found on the page, before the page or after the page. Students list the words in alphabetical order.
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My Spelling Words: Spelling List #91

For Students 4th - 6th
In this spelling worksheet, learners read and write given words. They look the words up in the dictionary and identify the guide words that appear on the page. Students choose two words to define. There are 14 problems on this...
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My Spelling Words: Spelling List #171

For Students 4th - 6th
In this spelling worksheet, students practice reading and writing 12 given words. Afterward, all students look up each word in the dictionary and write down the guide words found on the page. All words end with the "-tion" and "-sion"...
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My Spelling Words: Spelling List #154

For Students 4th - 6th
For this spelling worksheet, learners practice writing and reading their spelling words. They look the word up in the dictionary and identify the guide words on the page. Students write the definition of two spelling words. All words...
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My Spelling Words- Spelling List #39

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this spelling worksheet, students learn 12 words in a list which have no apparent connection. Students look up each word in the dictionary and write the guide words that appear on the page.
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My Spelling Words: Spelling List #141

For Students 4th - 6th
In this spelling worksheet, students write and spell 12 given words. Next, they identify the words in a dictionary and write the guide words on the worksheet, Students write the definition of two words. All words contain "ie."
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My Spelling Words: Spelling List #146

For Students 4th - 5th
In this spelling worksheet, students practice reading and writing twelve words. Afterward, they look up each word in the dictionary and write the guide words. Students define two words.
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Root Words

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Scholars demonstrate their knowledge of root words aqua and aud, and develop vocabulary skills by completing of a chart, handout, and worksheet using creative thinking skills, a dictionary, and a thesaurus.   
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Guided Reading Organizer for Chain Reaction

For Teachers 10th - 12th
The class uses Chain Reaction, a magazine, to build a better understanding of Latin and Greek roots found in scientific vocabulary. They use two attached worksheets to help them read a scientific article, using visual clues and their...
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Word Walls

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students participate in creating a word wall using words important to them and design other organized displays to entice memory and assist in teaching. As a class, they clap out letters of words and solve mystery words from given clues....
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Strengthening Your Vocabulary

For Teachers 4th - 8th
A challenging worksheet is here for your learners of language arts. In it, they must find words that convey a more powerful, or more descriptive meaning than the guide word at the top of the list. There are 12 guide words, and nine more...
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Harper Collins

The Giving Tree Anniversary Teaching Guide

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
Celebrate poetry month all of April with a guide that uses six of Shel Silverstein's most famous books as a basis for the lessons. Discussion questions and writing activities are provided for each of Silverstein's books.
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Guide Words

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate guide words. In this library lesson, 3rd graders investigate guide words in reference materials and complete an alphabetizing worksheet.
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Mixed Up Dictionary

For Students 4th - 5th
In this language arts worksheet, students locate inaccuracies in a sorted list. Students study a dictionary page with 40 words and the guide words, and identify the words which do not belong.
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Using Dictionary Entries

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Work on word pronunciations by exploring the dictionary. Learners complete a worksheet containing questions about dictionary entries. They review how to use a dictionary, identify syllable breaks, parts of speech, and word pronunciation.
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Reading Study Guide: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

For Students 8th - 11th
Meant for use with Maya Angelou's first autobiographical volume I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the materials here are designed for a homeschool setting, but they'd suit any classroom or text. Graphic organizers, chapter summary guides,...
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Remembering New Words

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Four strategies learners can use to remember new words are detailed on a one-page worksheet. They are shown how to find synonyms, make a personal connection, think of antonyms, and how to make up a sentence that puts the words together....

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