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Dictionary Skills Worksheet

A Grade 3 ELA worksheet to practice dictionary skills including alphabetical order, guide words, and finding word meanings.

Grade 3 ELA GrammarLanguage and VocabularyDictionary Skills
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Fill in the BlanksMultiple Choice2 Short AnswerTrue / False

Standards

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.4.d

Topics

dictionaryvocabularyELAgrade 3language
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Dictionary Skills Practice

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Read each question carefully and follow the instructions. Use your dictionary skills to answer the questions.

Put the following words in alphabetical order. Write them on the lines below.

zebra
apple
dog
cat
bird
elephant

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Which pair of guide words would you find the word 'happy' between?

a

gum - hat

b

hand - hope

c

house - jump

d

hungry - ice

Look up the word 'brave' in a dictionary. Write down its definition.

A dictionary tells you how to spell a word.

T

True

F

False

Guide words are found at the bottom of each dictionary page.

T

True

F

False

Imagine you are reading a book and you find the word 'enormous'. How would you use a dictionary to find out what it means?