how is a dictionary organized?
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How is a Dictionary Organized?. Adapted from Faye Humbard’s version found online – revised December 2008 by Diana Knight. Dictionaries are books that list all the words in a language. . Dictionary words are organized in alphabetical order . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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How is a Dictionary Organized?Adapted from Faye Humbard’s version found online – revised December 2008 by Diana Knight
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Dictionaries are books that list all the words in a language.
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Dictionary words are organized in alphabetical order. To use a dictionary easily, you must know how to alphabetize words.
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Since there are so many words in a dictionary, guide words are used to help you locate a word quickly.
What are guide words?
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Guide words are found at the top of each page. They tell you the first and last word that is found on that page.
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How do guide words help you find a word quickly?• Instead of looking at each word on a page, which could take forever, you just look at the guide words. • Then use what you know about alphabetizing words to decide if your word would be found on that page.
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Let’s see what that means. . . Let’s pretend
we are looking up the word, science. First we would turn to the S section.
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Then we would use the guide words and what we know about alphabetizing words to decide the correct page in the S section.
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We would look at the guide words at the top of each page and decide between which ones our word would come in alphabetical order.
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Let’s do that for the word science . . .
Which one of these pages would contain the word
science?
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The page with the guide words-stamp - summer
Or the page with the guide words-sandwich - seventy
science
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Dictionary DefinitionsWhat do they mean?
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Have you ever looked up the definition for a word in the dictionary? If so, then you might have been confused by some of the parts of that definition.
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Today, we’re going to learn what each part of a definition means.
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This is a definition for flag:
flag (flag)1. noun A piece of cloth with a
pattern or symbol of a country, an organization, etc.
2. verb To stop, or to signal. We flagged down the police officer.
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flag (flag)1. noun A piece of cloth with a
pattern or symbol of a country, an organization, etc.
2. verb To stop, or to signal. We flagged down the police officer.
The word being defined is followed by the pronunciation in parenthesis.
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flag (flag)
1. noun A piece of cloth with a pattern or symbol of a country, an organization, etc.
2. verb To stop, or to signal. We flagged down the police officer.
The first word tells the word’s part of speech
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1. noun A piece of cloth with a pattern or symbol of a country, an organization, etc.
2. verb To stop, or to signal. We flagged down the police officer.
The next section is the actual definition of the word.
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1. noun A piece of cloth with a pattern or symbol of a country, an organization, etc.
2. verb To stop, or to signal. We flagged down the police officer.
Finally, you might see a sentence showing how the word is used. Especially if the use is not the most common for the word.
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Let’s see what you’ve learned!
mischief (miss-chif)noun Playful behavior that may cause annoyance or harm to others. My brother is always up to some sort of mischief.
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book (buk)1. noun A set of pages that are
bound together.2. verb To arrange for
something ahead of time. We’ve booked a vacation in Mexico.
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Now you know the definition of definition!