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Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Dictionary Skills Educational Resources

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.

Dig into the Dictionary 1

Students will practice using dictionary guide words by matching words to the pages they would appear on.

Dictionary Skills: Alphabetizing Guide Words

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

Dictionary Skills

Use this resource to give your students practice using guide words to determine a word’s location in the dictionary.

Identify the Guide Words

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

Dig into the Dictionary 2

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.

Guide Words Sort

Use this resource to give your students practice using a dictionary’s guide words to correctly locate a word.

Dictionary Detective

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

Dictionary Treasure Hunt

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Dictionaries & Definitions.

Glossary: Dictionaries & Definitions

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.

English Pronunciation

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

W.E.B. Du Bois

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.

Vocabulary Log

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.

Finding Root 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.

Vocabulary Think & Seek

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!

List of Irregular Plural Nouns

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.

Read the Word Clues

What do your students do after they circle tricky words in their writing? Help them keep track of the revision process with this handy worksheet.

Revising Spelling

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

Glossary: Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words

Make a garland of paper flags representing your child's favorite countries.

Make a Garland of Flags!

Little readers, practice alphabetizing with this fun activity! Kids can put these scrambled words in alphabetical order to create a complete sentence.

Alphabetical Sentences

Help your students learn new vocabulary by creating their own picture dictionaries! Students will quickly master their new words with this handy chart that has them logging the word, a picture, a definition, and a sentence that puts the word into context.

Picture 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.

Vocabulary Partner Talk

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

Introducing Palindromes

Challenge your first grader to wordsmith her way to victory with this puzzle! Who can find the most words in the letters of "Saint Patrick's Day"?

St. Patrick's Day Word Game

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words.

Vocabulary Cards: Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Dictionaries & Definitions.

Vocabulary Cards: Dictionaries & Definitions

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

Play Antonym-Synonym Tic-Tac-Toe

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Story Sequencing Activity

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

Become a Word Detective!

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

Autumn Symbols Drawing Game

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