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

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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.