Teaching Dictionary Skills Teachers play an important role in aiding students to
help themselves - one way of achieving this is to teach students to be efficient
users of dictionaries and other reference works. This workbook provides practice
in finding and understanding information in such books effectively. It also
provides teachers with a wide range of insights into how different types of
dictionaries may usefully be incorporated into the learning process. The
reproducible exercises provide progressive instruction on topics such as
alphabetizing, phonetic symbols, guide words, meanings, grammar, idioms, etc.
The exercises will help students learn to use different types of dictionaries
successfully. The reference skills needed to use a dictionary are isolated and
practiced in a systematic way to illustrate the method of teaching proposed.
Teachers may use the exercises selectively and in a different sequence to
integrate them with other activities. The workbook gives specific guidelines and
suggestions for teachers to help them provide a successful training program in
dictionary use. As Anatole France said: A dictionary is the universe in
alphabetical order.