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Students will be able to understand words without a dictionary after they work through this exercise teaching how to determine the meaning of words using roots, prefixes, and suffixes.


Determine Meaning Using Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

Review common vocabulary words with this fun and creative color-by-number worksheet!

Color by Code: Vocabulary Definitions #1

Stumped on a Spanish language worksheet? This mini dictionary is here to help!

Spanish Word Fiesta

Instead of looking a word up in the dictionary, practice using context clues to find the meaning of unknown words.

Using Context Clues

Use this mini English-to-German and German-to-English dictionary as a resource while you learn German.

German Vocabulary

When your students complete this crossword puzzle they will be introduced to a variety of words that are commonly seen in 5th grade texts and basal readers.

5th Grade Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

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

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

Dictionary Skills: Alphabetizing Guide Words

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

Fill in the Blank with Vivid Vocabulary

Understanding prefixes is crucial for learning the meaning of unfamiliar words and building vocabulary.  Use this resource to study the prefix pre-.

Prefix Study: Pre

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

Children learn to identify and use the formatting of a typical dictionary definition in this useful reference worksheet.

Using the Dictionary

Make a garland of paper flags representing your child&#39;s favorite countries.

Make a Garland of Flags!

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

Identify the Guide Words

Kids practice breaking apart multi-syllable words with long vowels in this cave adventure game.

Spelling Long Words Adventure

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

Does your fifth grader need a study buddy for geometry? Forget about a tutor. Help him make his own geometry dictionary!

Make a Geometry Dictionary

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

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

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

Dictionary Detective

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

Using Reference Materials

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

Book Through the Summer

Your fifth grade aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

Write a Funny Limerick

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

Using the Dictionary Guide Words

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

Write Dad a Basketball Message

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

Alphabetical Sentences

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

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

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

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

Root Out the Meaning of Words

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