Dictionary SkillsI can use a dictionary to help me find the meaning, part of speech, spelling, pronunciation and syllabication of a word

SYCAMORE 5TH GRADEMIKELLE 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?

What are guide words? How can they help me find the word I am looking for?

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

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!

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!!

Let’s say we want to look up the word

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!

“STRONG”

LET’S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK!

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

closure

make list of 5 words that I can find under the guide words television-thankful