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Dictionary Skills

Dictionary Skills. I can use a dictionary to help me find the meaning, part of speech, spelling, pronunciation and syllabication of a word. SYCAMORE 5TH GRADE MIKELLE CRONK. What’s the big idea?. What is a dictionary? How can I use it to help me find the meaning of words i don’t know?

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Dictionary Skills

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  1. Dictionary Skills • I can use a dictionary to help me find the meaning, part of speech, spelling, pronunciation and syllabication of a word SYCAMORE 5TH GRADE MIKELLE CRONK

  2. What’s the big idea? • What is a dictionary? How can I use it to help me find the meaning of words i don’t know? • What are guide words? How can they help me find the word I am looking for?

  3. What is a dictionary? • think back to our lesson yesterday... • what is a dictionary useful for? • Stand up when you can remember 3 things that i can find in a dictionary... • keep standing if you can remember 4 things that i can find a dictionary... • Keep standing if you can remember all 5 things I can find in a dictionary! LET’S SHARE OUT

  4. finding a word in the dictionary • There are over 171,476 words in the english dictionary!! • It would be very hard if the dictionary didn’t help us out by giving us GUIDE WORDS!

  5. let’s review • Guide words: Located at the top of each dictionary page. These are the first and last word on the page. • All other words will fall in between those two guide words! IF YOU KNOW THE ALPHABET... LOOKING UP WORDS IN THE DICTIONARY IT GOING TO BE A PIECE OF CAKE!!

  6. Let’s say we want to look up the word “STRONG” • Step 1: We would turn to the “S” section of the dictionary • Step 2: we would flip through the “s” section and try to find the guide words that strong falls in between. • We use the second letter to guide us, if both of the guide words have an “ST” we then go to the third letter! LET’S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK!

  7. Alphabetical order • Before we continue with the guide words, let’s practice putting words in alphabetical order!! • If each word starts with a different letter, it is super easy! But, think about what if the words all start with same letter... • Apple, animal, ape, automobile, alarm

  8. Apple, animal, ape, automobile, alarm • If all the words start with the same letter, we look at the second letter • If by chance the words have the same second letter, you move on to the third letter!! • Talk with your partner and see if you can come up with a list on your slate that puts those words in ABC order! ALARM, ANIMAL, APE, APPLE, AUTOMOBILE

  9. On your own... • Put these words in alphabetical order: enter, elephant, ear, exciting, eraser • Hopefully you said... ear, elephant, enter, eraser, exciting • Are you guys ready to take it to the next level?

  10. Good-great • Which of the following words would appear on the dictionary page with the above guide words • A. Gallop • B. greedy • c. grass • d. gullible

  11. pencil-precious • Which of the following words would appear on the dictionary page with the above guide words • a. people • b. princess • c. pass • d. paddle

  12. brick-bus • Which of the following words would appear on the dictionary page with the above guide words • a. Bribe • b. bride • c. butter • d. buy

  13. Let’s change it up • If I was looking for the word EXCELLENT, which pair of guide words would I look under? • A. eve-ewe • b. enter-eraser • c. Ear-Elephant • d. exact-exercise

  14. Let’s change it up • If I was looking for the word laughter, which pair of guide words would I look under? • a. line-love • b. lace-look • c. live-luck • d. looney-love

  15. closure • make list of 5 words that I can find under the guide words television-thankful

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