Dictionary skills

What does a dictionary do?

• A dictionary is a fiction book that we read for fun.

• A dictionary is a book which lists words and their meanings.

• A dictionary is a book that lists words and gives alternative words that mean the same thing.

• A dictionary is a book that teaches us how to cook.

If we checked the alphabetical order of the dictionary, which word comes first?

• Adventure

• Acroymn

• Absent

• Aardvark

What is a definition?

• How to spell a word.

• A word with different meanings.

• The meaning of a word.

• A word with the same spelling but different pronunciation.

In a dictionary, it often lists synonyms of words. What is a synonym? Use the Cambridge online dictionary to fill the gap.

A word or phrase that has the (a)   or nearly the same meaning as another word or phrase in the same language:

Mr. Steve is reading a story and sees the sentence 'The weather was fair' but he doesn't know what it means. When he looks it up in the dictionary he sees more than one definition. Which one should he use?

• A noun

• An adjective

• Neither

What is a noun?

• A describing word.

• A doing/action word.

• A naming word

• A small creature.

What is an adjective?

• An action/ doing word.

• A naming word.

• A describing word.

• A word that tells us how something is doing something.

What is an adverb?

• A word that describes a noun.

• A word that shows an action.

• A word that describes or gives more information about a verb, adjective, adverb, or phrase.

• It is the same as an adjective,

What is a thesaurus?

• A dinosaur

• A book that gives different words with same or similar meanings.

• A book that gives definitions of words.

• A type of plant.

Find a really long word and write it's meaning!