This week at Literacy 4 Kids, we’re spotlighting ways to help students become better acquainted with the dictionary!
Picture Books for Inspiring a LOVE of WORDS and Introducing Dictionary Skills:
1. The Word Collector by Peter H Reynolds
2. The Great Dictionary Caper by Judy Sierra
3. Noah Webster and His Words by Jeri Chase Ferris
4. W is for Webster: Noah Webster and His American Dictionary by Tracey Fern
5. The Boy Who Loved Words by Roni Schotter
6. Winston the Book Wolf by Marni McGee and Ian Beck
7. Max’s Words by Kate Banks
8. The Keeper of Wild Words by Brooke Smith
Mini Lesson Idea:
Seat students in a circle on the carpet. If possible, it would be great to have a class set of student dictionaries. If not, have students share. Place a dictionary in front of each student (or group of students). Place a basket in the center of the circle. Next to the basket place a sheet of green butcher paper. Inside the basket place random words from all sections of the dictionary. (Write the words on flowers during the spring and pumpkins during the fall. That way, the green sheet of butcher paper represents either a garden or a pumpkin patch.) Have a student come to the center and draw a word from the basket – and place the word on the patch of green butcher paper that represents either a garden or a pumpkin patch. All students will practice finding the word together using their dictionaries.
Dictionary Skills Task Cards:
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