Provide students links to several online dictionaries. Explain that many online dictionaries allow users to view words that come before and after the word looked up. Help students to locate this feature on the websites.
APPLY Writer’s Corner
After students have finished their sentences, have them share their work in small groups. Challenge students to use the new word aloud in a sentence before the next student reads his or her sentence. Students should demonstrate the ability to use a dictionary.
ASSESS Note which students had difficulty using the dictionary. Use the Reteach option with those students who need additional reinforcement.
TEACHING OPTIONS Reteach Some students may need practice alphabetizing words past the second letter. Have students start by alphabetizing words beginning with fe (fear, feet, fell, fence, fender). Then have students repeat this process with words beginning with pi (pick, pie, pilot, pipe). Next, have students alphabetize words beginning with san (sand, sandal, sandy, sane, sang) and then with pla (place, plain, plate, platter, play). Have students check their lists using a dictionary.
Dictionary Illustration Have students choose one of the words they looked up in this lesson and illustrate the dictionary entry. For example, if the word is hoedown, students could create a rebus, such as an illustration of a garden tool plus an illustration of a person lying down, for the pronunciation. They could draw a picture of people dancing for the definition. When students have completed their illustrations, encourage volunteers to share their work with the class.
ACTIVITY B Here is a sample dictionary page with its guide words. Use the guide words shown on the dictionary page below to indicate whether each of the following words would be located before page 200, on page 200, or after page 200.
For Tomorrow occupy
oddball
ocean
Oklahoma
obtain
occasion
onion
octopus
ocelot
ACTIVITY C Use opossum and orchestra as guide words. Write two words that would appear in a dictionary right before this page, four words that would appear on this page, and two words that would appear after this page. Do the activity again with genealogy and gerbil as guide words.
Writer’s Corner Open a print dictionary to any page and look at the guide words. Look at the
Have students choose three words that begin with the same first letter as their last name. Instruct students to use a print or online dictionary to jot down brief definitions for each word and to write why they chose those words. Tell students to be prepared to share their words during the next class. Be prepared to share your own words with students.
entries for these guide words. Browse through the other entries on the page. Find a few interesting words or words you’ve never seen before. Write five sentences
Common Core Standards CCSS.ELA.L.6.4c CCSS.ELA.W.6.10 CCSS.ELA.SL.6.1a
about one of them. Define the Genealogy (family tree)
word. Tell why it appealed to you. Tell how and when you
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With an adult, use an online dictionary.
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