Basic Skills Building Dictionary Skills, Grades 2-3
by Laura Wagner Author
(From Amazon): Dictionary skills are the building blocks for using all reference materials. However, many students are not confident using dictionaries. Building Dictionary Skills familiarizes students with the information included in dictionaries, as well as tools to help them quickly locate words and find meanings. Practicing dictionary skills will help students effectively use dictionaries to verify spellings, look up new words, and learn new meanings.The enjoyable activities, puzzles, codes, and riddles in Building Dictionary Skills introduce the most essential reference skills supported by the NCTE and IRA standards. The reproducible worksheets provide progressive instruction of topics such as alphabetizing, guide words, and phonetic spellings. Students will learn to look up words, pronounce words, and understand dictionary entries. Dictionary skills are strengthened by specific activities on parts of speech, syllabic divisions, prefixes and suffixes, and multiple definitions. This workbook will help your students learn to successfully use any dictionary, including The McGraw-Hill Children's Dictionary.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 978-0742417465
- Print Status
- In Print
- Lessons
- 43
- Pages
- 48
- Suggested Grades
- 2nd - 5th
- Publisher
- Instructional Fair
- Edition
- Workbook
- Copyright
- 2003
Lessons
- 1 THE ALPHABET - Alphabet Antics p.4
- 2 ALPHABETICAL ORDER - Let's Eat p.5
- 3 ALPHABETICAL ORDER - Picture Perfect p.6
- 4 ALPHABETICAL ORDER - Alphabetical Annie p.7
- 5 ALPHABETICAL ORDER - It's a Fact p.8
- 6 ALPHABETICAL ORDER - Cook Up the Answer p.9
- 7 ALPHABETICAL ORDER - Mixed-Up Martin p.10
- 8 ALPHABETICAL ORDER - Dictionary Dividers p.11
- 9 DICTIONARY PLACEMENT - Alpha-Graph p.12
- 10 DICTIONARY PLACEMENT - In Order p.13
- 11 DICTIONARY PLACEMENT - Throw Your Lasso p.14
- 12 USING GUIDE WORDS - A Piece of Cake p.15
- 13 USING GUIDE WORDS - Guide to the Stars p.16
- 14 USING GUIDE WORDS - Crossing Guards p.17
- 15 USING GUIDE WORDS - To Turn or Not to Turn p.18
- 16 USING GUIDE WORDS - ABC-123 p.19
- 17 USING GUIDE WORDS - Graphic Success p.20
- 18 SINGULAR AND PLURAL NOUNS - Clean Up p.21
- 19 VERB TENSE - Past or Present? p.22
- 20 IDENTIFYING THE ROOT WORD - Baseball Fun p.23
- 21 IDENTIFYING THE ROOT WORD - Root Word Twist p.24
- 22 IDENTIFYING THE ROOT WORD -In the Beginning p.25
- 23 SPELLING SKILLS - Write it Right p.26
- 24 SPELLING SKILLS - An Odd Animal p.27
- 25 SPELLING SKILLS - A Surprising Bird p.28
- 26 PARTS OF SPEECH/MULTIPLE DEFINITIONS - Lend a Hand p.29
- 27 PARTS OF SPEECH/MULTIPLE DEFINITIONS - Searching for Clues p.30
- 28 PARTS OF SPEECH/MULTIPLE DEFINITIONS - Fly High p.31
- 29 PARTS OF SPEECH/MULTIPLE DEFINITIONS - Between the Lines p.32
- 30 PARTS OF SPEECH/MULTIPLE DEFINITIONS - In Your Own Words p.33
- 31 SYLLABICATION - Picture This p.34
- 32 SYLLABICATION - Scoops of Syllables p.35
- 33 SYLLABICATION - Choices, Choices p.36
- 34 SYLLABICATION - It's a Puzzler p.37
- 35 SYLLABICATION - It Doesn't Fit! p.38
- 36 SYLLABICATION - Fun Facts p.39
- 37 PHONETIC SPELLING - Make a Match p.40
- 38 PHONETIC SPELLING - Long, Short, or Silent p.41
- 39 PHONETIC SPELLING - Spell It p.42
- 40 PHONETIC SPELLING - Break the Code p.43
- 41 PHONETIC SPELLING - The Riddler p.44
- 42 PHONETIC SPELLING - Dear Pen Pal p.45
- 43 Practice Test p.46
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