Practice Dictionary Skills

Use these task cards to reinforce your students’ dictionary skills. Students 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 favorite 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 organizer 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, a teacher in Texas, and Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan, both Teach Starter collaborators.