Let's Learn How to Look UP a Word
1. First locate the dictionary in your library
2. Let's look up a word together:
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Let's look UP the word APPLE.
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What is the first letter?
Helpful Hints:
It may help you to say the letters out loud in order.
You could also write down the letters you will be looking for each step of the way:
A
AP
APP
APPL
APPLE
3. Go to the A section of the dictionary. Good!
4. Now, move on to the next letter P and look through the A section until you get to words that begin with the letters AP in that order. Remember the dictionary lists words alphabetically.
- apple will be after ant but before art
5. Contiue looking for each letter in the word APPLE until you see the whole word on the page in the dictionary.
6. Raise your hand when you have found the word APPLE in the dicitonary.
Let's look at another example. Look up the word BIRD:
What is the first letter? Let's look it UP!