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.