Teaching Resource
Dictionary Dig Activity Cards
A set of 24 dictionary activity cards.
Print, cut and laminate the activity cards for students to use individually or in small groups. Students use a dictionary to complete the activity listed on the card.
Use this teaching resource when learning about dictionary skills or as a literacy group activity when developing spelling skills and strategies.
An editable version of this resource has also been provided to include your own dictionary activities.
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NSW Curriculum alignment
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELA312
Understand how to use banks of known words, syllabification, spelling patterns, word origins, base words, prefixes and suffixes, to spell new words, including some uncommon plurals
- VCELA296
Recognise homophones and know how to use context to identify correct spelling
- VCELA354
Understand how to use banks of known words, word origins, base words, prefixes, suffixes, spelling patterns and generalisations to spell new words, including technical words and words adopted from o...
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELA1779
Understand how to use knowledge of letter patterns including double letters, spelling generalisations, morphemic word families, common prefixes and suffixes and word origins to spell more complex word...
- ACELA1513
Understand how to use knowledge of known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words
- ACELA1526
Understand how to use knowledge of known words, word origins including some Latin and Greek roots, base words, prefixes, suffixes, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words inclu...
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Updated to include editable version of resource
Addition by Nikki (Teach Starter) 20th Nov, 2017
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Lovely resource for an independent Reading Group Activities to consolidate the use of Dictionaries. Thank you.
Comment by Zuriette Du Plessis on November 19, 2017 at 1:15 pm
Hi Zuriette,
Thank you for your lovely comment! It is great to hear you are finding this resource useful in your classroom.
Kind regards,
Nikki
Comment by Nikki (Teach Starter) on November 20, 2017 at 7:33 am
Thank you SO VERY MUCH for this activity. Thank you for helping us in such a creative way.
Comment by Zuriette Du Plessis on November 26, 2017 at 9:20 am
Thank you for the feedback, Zuriette! So happy to hear that these will be useful for you 🙂
Official comment by Scott (Teach Starter) on January 10, 2018 at 8:33 pm