Beginning Dictionary Skills

What comes next after the letter g? Put these letters in ABC order – p d i.

As children move through the 44 lessons in this book, they progress from letter ordering to word order, and on to activities designed to build comfort and use of a dictionary.

Once a basic familiarity with locating words is achieved, students are ready to use what they find. Activities follow-on parts of speech and use of word meanings. The final exercises touch on multiple meanings - when the same word has two definitions in the dictionary.