1. What Does That Word Mean?
A guide to helping young children
use the dictionary

2. What is a Dictionary?

3. A dictionary…
• Is a book that gives all kinds of
information about words

4. You can use it to find out..
• How to spell a word
?
pa p l e

5. What a word means..
• The definition of apple is:
a round, firm fruit with red, yellow or
green skin

6. How to say the word
• Pronunciation
ap’ l
ap ple

7. How to use the word
• in a sentence
The apple fell off the tree.

8. Let’s use the dictionary to
look up some more words:
bus

9. zebra

10. If you don’t have a dictionary
you can use the computer to
look up words.

11. Wordsmyth.net
Dictionary.com
Internet Dictionaries

12. Slideshow
prepared by: Lisa Ligo
11/15/2010