Help your beginning reader learn about phonetic spellings that show how to pronounce a word. In this activity, she'll match each word with its pronunciation.

Kids will sharpen their dictionary skills with this challenging guide words sort. By sorting a group of words into their correct dictionary locations, young readers will gain confidence and dexterity in their reading and vocabulary abilities.

Children expand their vocabulary with this hands-on fill-in-the-blank activity.

Can you write a list of irregular plural nouns just by reading the singular nouns? It's a great way to practice dictionary and reference skills, too!

Use this resource to support your students as they work to break down words with inflected endings into the base form in order to successfully find a word’s definition.

Dictionary skills are an important part of learning to read and write. Help your little learner understand the different parts of a dictionary entry.

Use this exercise with your students to review alphabetizing and practice using guide words to determine a word’s correct location in the dictionary.

There are many ways to figure out the meanings of unknown words. Through this worksheet, students record unknown words and find out their meaning using a variety of strategies.

Help your students review root words so they can analyze unfamiliar words and figure out the meaning without using a dictionary. In this worksheet, students will identify the root of each word containing suffixes and prefixes.

Prepare kids for fifth grade with this crossword puzzle full of new vocabulary words!

Dig into your dictionary skills! Use this resource to guide students as they determine the right word to look up.

This worksheet will help strengthen your students' word definition skills.

In this worksheet, children will learn about a few common resource materials and how to search for information in them alphabetically.

Introduce second and third graders to W.E.B. Du Bois, writer, sociologist, and civil rights advocate, with this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

As your beginning reader builds their vocabulary, they may come across words they don't know. This worksheet will help them keep a log of new words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words.

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

Kids will practice listening and speaking skills in this interactive vocabulary activity. Students will pair up and take turns responding to questions about difficult words they've encountered and what they learned by using context clues and a dictionary.