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STUDY SKILLS Dictionary
WARM-UP
PRACTICE
READ, LISTEN, SPEAK Write on the board your list of toys, books, or games from yesterday’s For Tomorrow homework. Model for students how you alphabetized the first five items on the list. Ask students to alphabetize the rest of your list. Then have volunteers share their lists. Ask students to check one another’s lists for correct alphabetical order.
ACTIVITY D Have students use a dictionary to complete the activity in small groups. Encourage groups to share their answers with the class.
GRAMMAR CONNECTION
ACTIVITY F Have students work with partners to complete this activity. Invite
Take this opportunity to talk about run-on sentences. You may wish to have students check for and revise run-on sentences in classroom books.
ACTIVITY E Have students complete this activity with partners. Write the guide words on the board and invite volunteers to write their answers below the guide words.
students to share their answers with the class. ACTIVITY G Have partners complete this activity. When students have finished, have them look up their answers in a dictionary and check that each answer appears alphabetically between the two guide words in each item. Ask a volunteer to explain why the guide words in the activity are different from the guide words in students’ dictionaries.
TEACH Guide Words
Help students find the first page of the section in a dictionary that lists words that begin with the letter t. Tell students to find the word tabby on that page and to read the entry. Ask a volunteer to explain what tabby means. Read aloud the first paragraph of the section Guide Words. Help students find the entry for the word tiger in their dictionaries. Invite a volunteer to read aloud the entry. Ask volunteers to name the first and last entries on the page on which the word tiger appears. Then have students read aloud the guide words at the top of the page. Read aloud the rest of the section. Then write the word calico on the board. Have a volunteer read aloud the first step. Have students complete that step as they search for the word calico. Repeat this process with the remaining steps until all students have found the entry. Ask a volunteer to tell what calico means.
To save time when you’re looking up a word in a dictionary, you can use guide words. Guide words tell the first and last words found on a dictionary page. The guide words are located at the top corner of the page. When you look for a word in a dictionary, you should follow these steps. Decide whether the word can be found at the beginning, middle, or end of the dictionary. (Think of where the first letter of the word comes in the alphabet.)
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Look at the guide words at the top of the pages.
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Decide whether you can find the word between the two guide words.
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Fawn-colored lark
If so, look for the word on that page.
ACTIVITY D Where in the dictionary would you find the following words—toward the beginning, the middle, or the end?
1. batter 2. staff 3. maiden
5. afghan 6. lark 7. vine
9. exile 10. undo 11. rural
4. dowel
8. jump
12. cinder
ACTIVITY E Below are three sets of guide words with a page number for each. Tell the page number where you would find each word. linger—list 430
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listen—liven 431
liver—loan 432
1. liter
4. lisp
7. lint
2. load 3. livery
5. little 6. lipstick
8. lizard 9. lip
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