Handout
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Little Explorers Picture Dictionary

For Students K - 1st Standards
Delve into this wonderfully illustrated and comprehensive picture dictionary. Research up to 1,905 illustrated entries. Each word is used in a meaningful sentence.
Article
Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Building Research Skills 2 3

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Check out this site to learn more about building research skills for grades 2-3. This site offers suggestions for activities that will sharpen your abilities.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Research Sources: Reference Materials

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses using reference materials as research resources.
Activity
Learning Farm

Learning Farm: Common Core Standards: Dictionaries, Glossaries, Thesaurus

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learn about different reference materials such as dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauri to help you learn meanings of words, pronunciation, or parts of speech. View a short lesson then practice using Game Mode or Test Mode.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Ready, Set, Research!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars will have the opportunity to do research on a weather topic in which they are interested. This lesson will teach the students how to use dictionaries, encyclopedias, resource books and the Internet to find facts about the...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Library Dictionary

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart can be used in a library/resource center to illustrate alphabetical order and how books are arranged on the shelves in the library. It also discusses alphabetical order to help teach...
Handout
Other

Glossary of Speleological and Caving Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features a glossary of speleological and caving terms. This resource is easy to use and gives a an adequate definition for each.
Website
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Little Explorer Find It! Quizzes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
These activities can be used as assessments but are very interesting as classroom small group activities for dictionary skills, vocabulary building, alphabetization, and development of beginning research skills.
Website
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Little Explorer Find It! Quizzes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
These activities can be used as assessments but are very interesting as classroom small group activities for dictionary skills, vocabulary building, alphabetization, and development of beginning research skills.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Reference Materials Printed and Electronic

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn how to use dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauri in order to determine meanings of words and phrases, including their denotations, connotations, and etymologies.