Transcript Finding Secret Words - Lamar R

Chapter 1
How is a Dictionary
Organized?
Dictionaries are books
that list all the words in a
language.
To make dictionaries
easier to use, the words
are organized in
alphabetical order. So to
use a dictionary easily,
you must know how to
alphabetize words.
Since there are so many
words in a dictionary,
guide words are used to
help you locate a word
quickly.
What are guide words?
Guide words are found at
the top of each page. They
tell you the first and last
word that is found on that
page.
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 and then use what
you know about alphabetizing
words to decide if your word
would be found on that page.
Let’s see what that means-
Let’s pretend we are
looking up the word,
science. First we would
turn to the S section.
Then we would use the
guide words and what we
know about alphabetizing
words to decide the
correct page in the S
section.
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.
Let’s do that for the
word scienceWhich one of these pages
would contain the word
science?
science
The page with the guide words-
stamp - summer
Or the page with the guide words-
sandwich - seventy
Chapter 2
Dictionary Definitions
What do they mean?
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.
Today, we’re going to
learn what each part of a
definition means.
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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being
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in
country,
an organization,
etc.
parenthesis.
2. verb To stop, or to signal. We
flagged down the police
officer.
The first word tells the word’s
flag
(flag)
part of speech
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.
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
1.
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piece of how
cloththe
with a
word
pattern
is used.
or symbol
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of a if the
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country,
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an most
organization,
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for
the word.
1. verb To stop, or to signal. We
flagged down the police
officer.
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.
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.
Now you know the
definition of
definition!