Today’s Walking Classroom focuses on The Oxford English Dictionary, or OED. Dictionaries provide users with numerous types of information, not just the definitions of words. Dictionaries serve as a history book for words used in the past. Not all dictionaries are the same.
Character Value: Using kind words
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Common Core
L–Language | SL–Speaking and Listening | RI–Reading: Informational | RL–Reading: Literature | W–Writing | RH–6-8 Literacy in History/Social Studies | RST–6-8 Literacy in Science & Technical Subjects Elementary School:RI.3.4, L.3.4d, SL.3.1, SL.3.4
RI.4.4, L.4.4c, SL.4.1, SL.4.4
RI.5.4, L.5.4c, SL.5.1, SL.5.4
Middle School:
RI.6.4, L.6.4, SL.6.1, SL.6.4
RI.7.4, L.7.4, SL.7.1, SL.7.4
RI.8.4, L.8.4, SL.8.1, SL.8.4
Supplemental Resource Links and Downloads
Quiz: (Make sure you're already logged into your Gmail account, then click to copy this Google form to your Google Drive. Quiz keys are here.)
Oxford English Dictionary Google Quiz
Slide Deck:
Oxford English Dictionary Slide Deck
Discusses why English spellings make sense and how words and their spellings relate to each other.
Explains how new words get added or deleted from the Oxford English Dictionary.
Explore how words are added to the Oxford English Dictionary in this interactive graphic.
Use dictionary skills to answer quiz questions.
Identify unknown words and create a word journal in this project from the International Literacy Association.
Answer questions using the Oxford English Dictionary in this Easy Teacher Worksheets printable.
Create definitions for an obscure word and have others identify the correct one.
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