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Dictionary Skills Task Cards - Set 1

  • Updated

    Updated:  20 Mar 2023

Practise dictionary skills with this set of task cards.

  • Editable

    Editable:  Google Slides

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  1 Page

  • Curriculum
  • Years

    Years:  1 - 6

Curriculum

  • ACELY1672

    Re-read and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structureElaborationsreading their work and adding, deleting or changing words, prepositional phrases or sentences to improve meaning, for example replacing an everyday noun w...

  • ACELA1526

    Understand how to use knowledge of known words, word origins including some Latin and Greek roots, base words, prefixes, suffixes, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words including technical wordsElaborationsusing a dictionary...

teaching resource

Dictionary Skills Task Cards - Set 1

  • Updated

    Updated:  20 Mar 2023

Practise dictionary skills with this set of task cards.

  • Editable

    Editable:  Google Slides

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  1 Page

  • Curriculum
  • Years

    Years:  1 - 6

Practise dictionary skills with this set of task cards.

Practise Dictionary Skills

Use these task cards to reinforce your students’ dictionary skillsStudents will complete a multitude of tasks using a dictionary and writing their answers on their recording sheets. 

Skills include: 

  • using guide words
  • finding definitions
  • identifying parts of speech
  • determining the syllabication.

These task cards make a great reading center activity for your students.

Ways to Extend This Activity

Looking to extend this activity for your students? Here are a few of our favourite ideas: 

  • Have your students choose 5 unknown words from the task cards and look them up in the dictionary. Then, have them use all 5 words correctly in a silly story. 
  • Why not have your students create their own set of dictionary skill task cards and recording sheets? Then, trade with a partner and answer each other’s questions.
  • Have your students choose one of the unknown words from the task cards and complete our vocabulary graphic organiser using the word!

A recording sheet is included in the download. Use the drop-down menu to choose between the PDF or Google Slides version.


This resource has been created by Kelli Goffredi, and Lindsey Phillips, both Teach Starter collaborators.

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