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Title: Dictionary Skills and Guide Words


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Dictionary Skills and Guide Words
  • 2nd grade

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The Dictionary
  • Can tell us how to spell words
  • Can tell us how to pronounce words
  • Can tell us what a word means (Give the
    definition)
  • Can tell us how a word can be used in a sentence

3
The Dictionary
  • Words are in ABC order
  • Sometimes you have to look at more than the first
    letter to find a word in the right place

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Guide words
  • Guide words are at the top of each page
  • Guide words tell you the first word on a page and
    the last word on the page
  • Guide words help you find the word you need
    quicker

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celebrate - chair
  • celebrate
  • center
  • cereal
  • certain
  • chain
  • chair
  • All of these words are found on the same page in
    the dictionary

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rat real
  • read
  • mouse
  • raw
  • baby
  • stop

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live lock
  • loaf
  • log
  • like
  • line
  • list

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The Library
  • Labels on the shelves are like guide words.
  • Books are put in the shelves in ABC order using
    the authors last names.
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