FirstSchDicSkills 2006 3rd

Barry and Anita Scholes
Collins First School Dictionary Skills
First published 2001
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Editor: Mitzi Bales
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Contents
Introduction 4
Collins First School Dictionary Skills and the
National Literacy Strategy 7
Collins First School Dictionary Skills and the
5–14 Guidelines 9
Activity 1 What is a dictionary?

Activity 2 The alphabet
Activity 3 Alphabetical order
Activity 4 Alphabet fun
Activity 5 Alphabetical order: the first letter (1)
Activity 6 Alphabetical order: the first letter (2)
Activity 7 Colour word search
Activity 8 A to Z
Activity 9 Similar
Activity 10 Different
Activity 11 Anagrams
Activity 12 Rhyme time
Activity 13 The right spelling (1)
Activity 14 The right spelling (2)
Activity 15 Building words
Activity 16 More than one
Activity 17 Verbs
Activity 18 Sounds similar (1)
Activity 19 Sounds similar (2)
Activity 20 Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check
Activity 21 Word fun
Activity 22 Animal word search
Activity 23 Musical instruments
Activity 24 Word steps
Activity 25 Quiz time (1)
Activity 26 Quiz time (2)
Activity 27 Making a word bank
Activity 28 Collecting words
Answers 38
Introduction
Collins Dictionary Skills
Collins Dictionary Skills provide all-in-one support for developing
dictionary skills. Each Skills book provides:
● photocopiable activity sheets, differentiated for a wide range of abilities
● clear teaching notes and answers
● lesson planning charts that match each activity to National Literacy

Strategy objectives and Scottish 5–14 Guidelines.
For maximum support, use each Collins Dictionary Skills book with its
matching Collins Children’s Dictionary.
Collins Dictionaries – for children aged 2 to 11+

Developed in consultation with teachers, children’s lexicographers,
educational advisors and literacy, numeracy and science specialists,
these clear, colourful dictionaries have been written and designed to
support today’s Primary classroom requirements.
Collins Children’s Dictionaries are carefully streamlined to provide a

dictionary for each key level of literacy development. Because Collins’ range
of dictionaries progressively builds skills, children will be able to move
confidently between levels and become independent dictionary users.
Children need to acquire the ability to use a dictionary successfully and

independently. Collins Children’s Dictionaries have been designed to
provide all the support that children need by means of:
● clear, easy-to-use design
● child-oriented definitions and examples
● progressive building of key skills as children move from level to level.
The Collins Children’s Dictionary range:
● builds essential dictionary skills progressively, step by step, from beginner

to advanced
● supports today’s curriculum needs from the Early Learning Goals to SATs
● incorporates special features to encourage independent learning, such as

annotated introductions, theme pages, grammar help, word banks and
word histories
● has been rigorously researched and trialled with teachers and pupils
● has been compiled by a team of experts.
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Introduction
About Collins First School Dictionary

Collins First School Dictionary is designed for children aged 5 and over.
It is full of helpful and educationally sound features, including:
● Colour headwords and guidewords, plus an alphabet line on every
page for easy reference.
● Big letters at the top of each page for each new letter.
● Clear, child-friendly definitions. These are numbered if there is more
than one meaning.
● Example sentences showing the headword used in context.
● Illustrations to help the user read the word and understand its meaning.
● Plurals of nouns, tenses of verbs and comparative forms of adjectives
with their appropriate headword.
● Where to look for more information. Some definitions tell the user to
look at another headword or at the pages at the back of the dictionary for
further information.
● Collins First School Dictionary has a special Word Wizard section
at the back. It has picture pages, number banks, games and Internet
advice. The picture pages include labelled illustrations on topics such
as parts of the body, clothes, position words, shape and colours.
● Grammar pages provide help with understanding pronouns and
question words.
● Word banks and number banks give help in learning and spelling
time words, synonyms and antonyms, the seasons, measures, numbers
and much-used words.
About Collins First School Dictionary Skills

Activity sheets
The activity sheets help you to use the Collins First School Dictionary as an
active literacy resource. They provide a wide range of activities to help Y1
and Y2 (P2 and P3) children develop basic dictionary skills. They give you,
the teacher, a variety of strategies to support literacy objectives.
The activity sheets are also suitable as a focus for class teaching, for use
with a small group, or for individual work in class or at home. The range of
activities enables you to select appropriate activity sheets to meet the needs
of individual children.
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Introduction
The activity sheets are grouped in six sections:
Using a dictionary
Activity sheet 1 helps children to understand the functions of a dictionary.
Alphabetical order
Activity sheets 2 to 7 support children in gaining alphabet skills, reinforce
these skills and give practice in finding words in the dictionary.
Dictionary organization
Activity sheets 8 to 10 cover the alphabetic listing of headwords and other
information provided in the dictionary, such as synonyms and antonyms.
Spelling
Activity sheets 11 to 20 show how a dictionary can be used to check
spelling. They cover rhyming words, vowel phonemes, compound words
and plurals. Activity sheet 20 encourages the use of the Look, Say, Cover,
Write, Check strategy.
Dictionary games and quizzes

Activity sheets 21 to 26 offer a variety of dictionary games and quizzes
to consolidate the children’s understanding of the various functions of
a dictionary.
Word banks
Activity sheets 27 and 28 encourage the children to collect and classify in
groups words of special interest. Activity sheet 28 may be used at any time
that word banks are explored.
Curriculum planning charts

Time-saving curriculum planning charts are provided for easy reference, to
support you when planning your lesson. The National Literacy Strategy chart
matches Collins First School Dictionary Skills to word, text and sentence level
objectives for Y1 and Y2. The Scottish 5–14 Guidelines chart matches
Collins First School Dictionary Skills to P1 and P2 attainment targets at
levels A and B.

Collins First School Dictionary Skills
and the National Literacy Strategy
Activity sheet NLS objective
Using a dictionary
1 What is a dictionary? Year 1, Term 2, Text level objective 20;
understanding the functions of a dictionary Year 2, Term 2, Text level objective 16
Alphabetical order
2 The alphabet
Year 1, Term 1, Word level objective 2
filling in missing letters
3 Alphabetical order
letters after, before and between
4 Alphabet fun
putting letters into alphabetical order
5 Alphabetical order: the first letter (1)
putting words into alphabetical order
6 Alphabetical order: the first letter (2)
putting words into alphabetical order
7 Colour word search
putting colours into alphabetical order
Dictionary organization
8 A to Z Year 1, Term 2, Text level objective 20;
understanding how words are sorted Year 2, Term 2, Text level objective 16
9 Similar
synonyms
10 Different Year 2, Term 2, Word level objective 11;
antonyms Year 3, Term 2, Word level objective 24
Spelling
11 Anagrams Year 1, Term 2, Text level objective 20;
checking spelling Year 3, Term 2, Word level objective 19
12 Rhyme time
words with the same sound and spelling
13 The right spelling (1) Year 1, Term 3, Word level objective 1;
long vowel phonemes; ai, ay, a-e; ee,ea; oa, o-e, ow Year 2, Term 1, Word level objective 1
14 The right spelling (2) Year 1, Term 3, Word level objective 1;
long vowel phonemes: ie, y, i-e, igh; oo, u-e, ew, ue Year 2, Term 1, Word level objective 3
15 Building words Year 1, Term 2, Word level objective 7;
compound words Year 2, Term 2, Word level objective 4
16 More than one Year 1, Term 2, Word level objective 8;
plurals Year 3, Term 2, Word level objective 11
17 Verbs Year 1, Term 2, Word level objective 6;
-s, -ed, and -ing endings Year 2, Term 1, Word level objective 7
18 Sounds similar (1)
ow and ou; oi and oy; short oo and u
19 Sounds similar (2)
air, are, ere and ear
20 Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check
Year 3, Term1, Word level objective 7
how to learn spellings

Activity sheet NLS objective
Dictionary games and quizzes
21 Word fun Year 1, Term 1, Word level objective 2;
crossword and alphabet code Year 2, Term 2, Text level objective 17
22 Animal word search
spelling
23 Musical instruments Year 1, Term 2, Text level objective 20;
finding word, checking spelling Year 3, Term 2, Word level objective 19
24 Word steps Year 1, Term 1, Word level objective 2;
steps crossword Year 2, Term 2, Text level objective 17
25 Quiz time (1) Year 1, Term 1, Text level objective 20;
dictionary quiz Year 2, Term 2, Text level objective 17
26 Quiz time (2) Year 1, Term 1, Text level objective 20;
dictionary quiz Year 2, Term 2, Text level objective 17
Word banks
27 Making a word bank Year 1, Term 2, Text level objective 20,
how to make a word bank Word level objective 10;
Year 2, Term 2, Text level objective 17
28 Collecting words Year 1, Term 2, Word level objective 10;
template for children’s personal word bank Year 1, Term 3, Word level objective 8;
Year 2, Term 2, Word level objective 10;

Collins First School Dictionary Skills and the 5–14 Guidelines
P2/3 attainment targets at Level A/B

Activity sheet number
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Reading for information

*awareness of letter sequence ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
*first letter order ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
*locating specific information ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Awareness of genre
*recognizing page layouts ✔ ✔
Functional writing ✔ ✔
Spelling
*look, cover, write, check ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
*rhyming families ✔ ✔ ✔
*spelling rules ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Knowledge about language ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
9
Name _________________________________________________________
What is a dictionary?
What is an abacus?
A dictionary is a book that lists words in alphabetical

order. It tells you how to spell them and what they mean.
Alphabetical order
1. What letter does the word abacus begin with? ___________
Now look in your dictionary.

2. What is the first word beginning
with b in the dictionary? _________________________________________
3. What is the first word

beginning with j? _________________________________________

beginning with t? _________________________________________

beginning with z? _________________________________________
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Name _________________________________________________________
The alphabet
1. Fill in the missing letters of the alphabet.
a
b d
__________
__________
f
g i k
__________ j __________
m o q __________
n __________ r
t __________ __________ __________
u w y
2. Write the alphabet here.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
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Name _________________________________________________________
Alphabetical order
1. Write each missing letter.
e f g ______ l m n ______ ______ rst ______ vwx
b ______ d e h i ______ k m ______ o p
2. Write the letter which comes after each letter below:
k ______ w ______ t ______ h ______ p ______
e ______ c ______ i ______ r ______ u ______
3. Write the letter which comes before each letter below:
______ c ______ m ______ j ______ y ______ g
______ v ______ f ______ x ______ o ______ t
4. Write the letter which comes between the two

letters below:
b and d ______ n and p ______ f and h ______ v and x ______
k and m ______ x and z ______ s and u ______ p and r ______
h and j ______ t and v ______
Name _________________________________________________________
Alphabet fun
1. Put these groups of letters into alphabetical order.

c b e d i h g j p n q m o w z x v y
________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________
2. Do the same with these.

f c b g t s v q k h m i v t p w
________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________
3. Which way do Li and Sam go to get to the park?

Follow the letters in alphabetical order to find out.
a
b b c
u g
b z q
h t
c
e
d f h
d f v
j
y z
x w i
a s
Park
Name _________________________________________________________
Alphabetical order: the first letter (1)
1. Put a ring round the first letter of each of these words.
dog camel bear alligator
Now put the words in alphabetical order. The first one

has been done for you.
alligator
________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________
2. Do the same for these words, on each line.
lemon orange apple peach
________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________
scarf jeans hat tie
________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________
Name _________________________________________________________
Alphabetical order: the first letter (2)
Write each row of words in alphabetical order.
1. piano xylophone drum
2. toast carrot egg
3. doctor teacher nurse
4. truck car van
5. hospital school factory
Name _________________________________________________________
Colour word search
1. There are seven colour words hidden in this soap

bubble. Can you find them?
y e l l o w
a t o e r h
b g c s a i
l r e d n t
u e d u g e
e e n g e e
v n p i n k
2. Write the colours you found.
________________________ ________________________ ________________________
________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________
3. Now put the colours you found into alphabetical order.
________________________ ________________________ ________________________
________________________ ________________________ ________________________ _______________________
Name _________________________________________________________
A to Z
The words in a dictionary are sorted into alphabetical

order. Words starting with a come first, then those
starting with b, then c and so on.
1. What is the first word in

your dictionary? ___________________________________________
2. What is the last word in

the dictionary? ___________________________________________
3. Find the first word which starts with the letters below.
b k m p v z
________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________
________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________
4. Find the last word which starts with the letters below.
c d j o r w
________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________
________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________
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Name _________________________________________________________
Similar
A synonym is a word that means the same or almost

the same as another word.
1. Find a suitable synonym for each phrase. The first one

has been done for you.
a correct reply a tiny insect
answer _
a correct ____________________ a _____________________ insect
a tidy drawer an unhappy girl
a _____________________ drawer a _____________________ girl
2. Write a word which means the same or almost the

same as each of these words.
afraid ________________________________ fast ________________________________
yell ________________________________ cook ________________________________
Name _________________________________________________________
Different
An antonym is a word that means the opposite of

another word.
1. Write an antonym, or opposite, of the words below.
soft ________________________________ dark ________________________________
narrow ________________________________ quiet ________________________________
few ________________________________ outside ________________________________
2. Write the antonyms that describe the pictures below.

The first one has been done for you.
dirty
_______________________ clean
_______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________
Name _________________________________________________________
Anagrams
Rearrange the letters to spell the word for each

picture. Check the spelling in your dictionary. Write
the page number.
pea flow redbag
________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________
flea sore foal
________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________
reap cheap cafe
________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________
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Name _________________________________________________________
Rhyme time
Words which rhyme often have the same letters at

the end.
Write a rhyming word for each word below. Use the
picture clues to help you.
pen sing
_______________________________ _______________________________
rock top
_______________________________ _______________________________
pain sold
_______________________________ _______________________________
fair shark
_______________________________ _______________________________
Name _________________________________________________________
The right spelling (1)
Long a
1. Put ai, ay or a–e in the spaces below. Check the
spellings in your dictionary if you can.
g ______ t ______ pl ______ ______ tr ______ ______ n
Long e
2. Put ee or ea in the spaces below. Check the spellings
in your dictionary if you can.
l ______ ______ f tr ______ ______ f ______ ______ t
Long o
3. Put oa, ow or o–e in the spaces below. Check the
p ______ l ______ b ______ ______ t b ______ ______
Name _________________________________________________________
The right spelling (2)
Long i
1. Put ie, i–e, igh or y in the spaces below. Check the
cr ______ b ______ t ______ l ______ ______
It goes h ______ ______ ______ in the sk ______ .
Long u
2. Put oo, u–e, ew or ue in the spaces below. Check the
m ______ ______ n t ______ n ______ fl ______ ______
Use gl ______ ______ to stick things together.
Name _________________________________________________________
Building words
Sometimes two short words can be put together to make

a longer word.
rain + bow = rainbow
1. Make long words from these words.
light + house = ____________________ foot + ball = ________________________
2. Match up these short words to make longer words.

class board
black storm
door brush
motor room
play paper
tooth fly
thunder bike
news ground
butter bell
Name _________________________________________________________
More than one
Singular means one person or thing.

Plural means more than one.
One cat Three cats One dragon Two dragons
When you look up the word for something, your

dictionary gives you the singular and plural of it.
Use your dictionary to find ten words and their plurals.
word plural
Name _________________________________________________________
Verbs
Verbs are words that say what is happening or being done.

Verbs have different forms.
I jump. She jumps. He is jumping. We jumped.
Write the different forms for the verbs below.

The first one has been done for you.
1. smile smiles
_________________________ smiling
_________________________ smiled
_________________________
2. bury _________________________ _________________________ _________________________
3. walk _________________________ _________________________ _________________________
4. carry _________________________ _________________________ _________________________
5. laugh _________________________ _________________________ _________________________
6. cry _________________________ _________________________ _________________________
7. hurry _________________________ _________________________ _________________________
8. dive _________________________ _________________________ _________________________
9. slip _________________________ _________________________ _________________________
10. bark _________________________ _________________________ _________________________
Name _________________________________________________________
Sounds similar (1)
In some words the same sound

is spelled differently.
The clown blew the trumpet loudly.
Write the correct spelling for these words.
1. ow and ou
cl ______ ______ d cr ______ ______ d sh ______ ______ t
2. oi and oy
b ______ ______ l t ______ ______ c ______ ______ n
3. oo and u
b___________________ p___________________ f___________________
Name _________________________________________________________
Sounds similar (2)
All these words have the same sound,

but are spelled differently.
A pair of bears gave Tom

a scare over there.
Complete these words with the correct spelling:

air, ear, are or ere.
1. f ______ ______ ______ p ______ ______ ______ sh ______ ______ ______
2. Did you te ______ ______ this dress?
3. It is rude to st ______ ______ ______ .
4. Her h ______ ______ ______ was very long.
5. Take c ______ ______ ______ . The st ______ ______ ______ s

are steep.
6. Wh ______ ______ ______ will you w ______ ______ ______

that hat?
Name _________________________________________________________
Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check
Use the Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check method to learn

how to spell difficult words.
Look Say Cover Write Check
If you spell the word wrong, use Look, Say, Cover, Write,
Check to try again.
Look,
Say, Try
Cover Write Check again Check
difficult
________________________ dificult
________________________ ✗
___________ difficult
________________________ ✓
___________
________________________ ________________________ ___________ ________________________ ___________
________________________ ________________________ ___________ ________________________ ___________
________________________ ________________________ ___________ ________________________ ___________
________________________ ________________________ ___________ ________________________ ___________
________________________ ________________________ ___________ ________________________ ___________
________________________ ________________________ ___________ ________________________ ___________
Name _________________________________________________________
Word fun
1
Read the clues and c
2
complete this crossword.
3
1. a small house on wheels r
2. the middle part of your 4
arm which bends 5

3. used for measuring y
6
or for drawing
straight lines 7
m
4. two times 8
5. a soft, thick food made
from milk 9
s
6. the day of the week
between Thursday and Saturday
7. something that is wrong
8. something is this if it wobbles
9. a person who is this can lift heavy things
What animal’s name can you find? _______________________________________
Alphabet code
Write the words in alphabetical order to read the message.
tomorrow for Zoe drinks picnic our Bring
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________ . _________________________
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Name _________________________________________________________
Animal word search
The names of eight animals are hidden in this word

search. Find them and write their names. Use the picture
clues to help you.
a c o t t e r t
l h a m s t e r
t i g e p p i g
n m y r j f w r
p p i n c d s l
r a b b i t y h
f n l g u m v o
o z x d a a d r
x e y c a e r s
z e b r a m s e
________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________
________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________
________________________________ ________________________________
Name _________________________________________________________
Musical instruments
1. What are the names of these

musical instruments?
d ______ ______ ______
v ______ ______ ______ ______ ______

r ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______
p ______ ______ ______ ______
t ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______
x ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______
g ______ ______ ______ ______ ______
2. What is the name of a large group of people who play

music together?
o ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______
Name _________________________________________________________
Word steps
Read the clues to help you complete these word steps.
1 2
a e
3 o l 4
6
5 n s
Clues
1 a pain that 8
goes on hurting 7 h o
2 a sound that you
make comes back to you 10
3 a flat shape with a curved 9 y r
edge, like the shape of an egg
4 bend in one direction
5 information about things that 11 r e
have just happened
6 breathe out slowly and make a sad sound
7 a man or boy who has done something
brave or good
8 to do what someone says
9 belonging to you
10 a deep, loud noise like a lion makes
11 not seen very often
Name _________________________________________________________
Quiz time (1)
Write the correct words.
1. a large group of soldiers a______________________
2. a vehicle that travels across water b______________________
3. a baby bird c______________________
4. a large metal or plastic

container for rubbish d____________________________________
5. a green jewel e____________________________________
6. the second month of the year F____________________________________
7. a kind of door in a fence or wall g ______________________
8. a sweet, sticky food made by bees h ______________________
9. a strong, hard, grey metal i ______________________
10. a container for holding liquids j ______________________
11. a toy that you fly in the air k _____________________
12. a young sheep l ______________________
13. a kind of jam, usually

made from oranges m _____________________________________
Name _________________________________________________________
Quiz time (2)
Write the correct words.
1. the time when it is dark n______________________
2. a white vegetable with a strong taste o__________________________
3. a small, round stone p_______________________
4. the cry of a duck q ______________________
5. things that you throw away r____________________________________
6. somewhere that you sit s______________________
7. an animal like a large frog t______________________
8. the brother of your mother or father u_________________________
9. someone who looks after sick animals v_________________________
10. the person who wins something w____________________________________
11. a photograph of the inside of your body x ______________________
12. the yellow part in the middle of an egg y ______________________
13. a line that bends suddenly up and down z______________________
Name _________________________________________________________
Making a word bank
A word bank is a collection of interesting words on a

particular topic.
Put the words below into their correct word bank.
Add more words of your own.
March wrist trousers windscreen knee

bumper tie Sunday year afternoon headlight
blouse elbow trainers engine morning
Clothes Time words
Parts of the body Parts of a car
Name _________________________________________________________
Collecting words
Use this page to make your own collection of words.

Here are some ideas for a word collection:
• words connected with a topic you are interested in
• words you want to learn to spell
• words you have learned to spell
• your favourite words
Make sure you know the meaning of the words you

collect. Use the Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check way to
learn how to spell them.
Word Definition
_______________________________________ _______________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________ _______________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________ _______________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________ _______________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Answers
Activity 1 Activity 10
1. a 2. to 5. Check the children’s answers are correct. Check the children’s answers make sense.
Activity 11
Activity 2
1. c, e, h, l, p, s, v, x, z ape, wolf, badger, leaf, rose, loaf, pear, peach, face
Check the children have written the correct page numbers.
Activity 3
Activity 12
1. efgh lmno qrst uvwx bcde hijk mnop hen; ring; clock; shop; train; cold; chair; park
2. l, x, u, i, q, f, d, j, s, v 3. b, l, i, x, f, u, e, w, n, s
4. c, o, g, w, l, y, t, q, i, u Activity 13
1. long a: gate, play, train 2. long e: leaf, tree, feet
Activity 4 3. long o: pole, boat, bow
1. bcde ghij mnopq vwxyz
2. bcfg qstv hikm ptvw Activity 14
1. long i: cry, bite, lie; It goes high in the sky.
3.
2. long u: moon, tune, flew; Use glue to stick things
together.
Activity 15
1. lighthouse, football
2. classroom, blackboard, doorbell, motorbike, playground,
toothbrush, thunderstorm, newspaper, butterfly
Activity 16
Check the children’s answers are correct.
Activity 17
1. smiles, smiling, smiled 2. buries, burying, buried
Park 3. walks, walking, walked 4. carries, carrying, carried
5. laughs, laughing, laughed 6. cries, crying, cried
Activity 5 7. hurries, hurrying, hurried 8. dives, diving, dived
1. alligator, bear, camel, dog 9. slips, slipping, slipped 10. barks, barking, barked
2. apple, lemon, orange, peach; hat, jeans, scarf, tie
Activity 18
Activity 6 1. ow and ou: cloud, crowd, shout
1. drum, piano, xylophone 2.carrot, egg, toast 2. oi and oy: boil, toy, coin
3. doctor, nurse, teacher 4. car, truck, van 3. oo and u: book, push/pushchair, foot
5. factory, hospital, school
Activity 19
1. fair, pear, share 2. Did you tear this dress?
Activity 7
3. It is rude to stare. 4. Her hair was very long.
1.
5. Take care. The stairs are steep.
y e l l o w
6. Where will you wear that hat?
a t o e r h
b g c s a i Activity 20
Check the children’s answers are correct.
l r e d n t
u e d u g e Activity 21
1
e e n g e e c a r a v a n
2
v n p i n k e l b o w
3
r u l e r
4
2. (in alphabetical order): blue, green, orange, pink, red, t w i c e
white, yellow 5
y o g u r t
6
F r i d a y
Activity 8
7
1. to 4. Check the children’s answers are correct. m i s t a k e
8
w o b b l y
9
Activity 9 s t r o n g
Check the children’s answers make sense.
The animal’s name contained in the puzzle is alligator.

Answers
Coded message: Bring drinks for our picnic tomorrow Zoe

Activity 22
a c o t t e r t
l h a m s t e r
t i g e p p i g
n m y r j f w r
p p i n c d s l
r a b b i t y h
f n l g u m v o
o z x d a a d r
x e y c a e r s
z e b r a m s e
Activity 23
1. drum, violin, recorder, piano, trumpet, xylophone,
guitar
2. orchestra
Activity 24
1. ache, echo, oval, lean, news, sigh, hero, obey, your,
roar, rare
Activity 25
1. army 2. boat 3. chick 4. dustbin 5. emerald
6. February 7. gate 8. honey 9. iron 10. jug
11. kite 12. lamb 13. marmalade
Activity 26
1. night 2. onion 3. pebble 4. quack
5. rubbish 6. seat 7. toad 8. uncle 9. vet
10. winner 11. x-ray 12. yolk 13. zigzag
Activity 27
Clothes: trousers, tie, blouse, trainers
Time words: March, Sunday, year, afternoon, morning
Parts of the body: wrist, knee, elbow
Parts of a car: windscreen, bumper, headlight, engine

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Barry and Anita Scholes

Collins First School Dictionary Skills

First published 2001

© HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2001

Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

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Barry and Anita Scholes assert the moral right to be identified as

Author: Barry and Anita Scholes

Activity 1 What is a dictionary?

● photocopiable activity sheets, differentiated for a wide range of abilities

● clear teaching notes and answers

● lesson planning charts that match each activity to National Literacy

Collins Dictionaries – for children aged 2 to 11+

Collins Children’s Dictionaries are carefully streamlined to provide a

Children need to acquire the ability to use a dictionary successfully and

● clear, easy-to-use design

● child-oriented definitions and examples

● progressive building of key skills as children move from level to level.

The Collins Children’s Dictionary range:

● builds essential dictionary skills progressively, step by step, from beginner

● incorporates special features to encourage independent learning, such as

● has been compiled by a team of experts.

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About Collins First School Dictionary

About Collins First School Dictionary Skills

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The activity sheets are grouped in six sections:

Dictionary games and quizzes

Curriculum planning charts

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P2/3 attainment targets at Level A/B

Collins First School Dictionary Skills © HarperCollinsPublishers 2001

Reading for information

A dictionary is a book that lists words in alphabetical

Now look in your dictionary.

3. What is the first word

4. What is the first word

5. What is the first word

1. Fill in the missing letters of the alphabet.

2. Write the alphabet here.

1. Write each missing letter.

e f g ______ l m n ______ ______ rst ______ vwx

b ______ d e h i ______ k m ______ o p

2. Write the letter which comes after each letter below:

k ______ w ______ t ______ h ______ p ______

e ______ c ______ i ______ r ______ u ______

3. Write the letter which comes before each letter below:

______ c ______ m ______ j ______ y ______ g

______ v ______ f ______ x ______ o ______ t

4. Write the letter which comes between the two

b and d ______ n and p ______ f and h ______ v and x ______

k and m ______ x and z ______ s and u ______ p and r ______

h and j ______ t and v ______

1. Put these groups of letters into alphabetical order.

________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________

2. Do the same with these.

________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________

e f g l m n rst vwx

b d e h i k m __ o p

k w t h p __

e c i r u __

c m j y __ g

v f x o __ t

b and d n and p f and h v and x

k and m x and z s and u p and r

h and j t and v

__ _

a _ drawer a _ girl

afraid fast

yell cook

soft dark

narrow quiet

few outside

___________ _ _ ___________

g t pl tr n

l f tr f t

p l b t b

cr b t l __

It goes h in the sk .

m n t n fl

Use gl to stick things together.

light + house = foot + ball = ____