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Nora Looks It Up at Coin Club

Read a story about a school coin club and use a beginning dictionary page to find word meanings and phrases like in mint condition.

Grade 2ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.2.4.e

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students use guide words to find the right page of a beginning dictionary.
Students choose the dictionary meaning of a word that fits a sentence.
Students use a dictionary entry to find the meaning of a phrase.

How to use

Read the story together, then look at the dictionary page and point out the guide words, numbered meanings and phrases. Students use the page to answer the questions.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.2.4.e

Use glossaries and beginning dictionaries, in print and digital form, to find or clarify the meaning of words and phrases.

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Nora Looks It Up at Coin Club

Use a beginning dictionary to find what words and phrases mean.

Read the story and the dictionary page

Coin Club

1Every Wednesday at lunch, the Coin Club meets in Room 5. The members bring the coins they collect. They look at the tiny dates and pictures with a magnifying glass.

2Today Nora showed the club a shiny new penny. Ms. Ruiz, the club leader, held it up to the light. "Look at that!" she said. "This penny is in mint condition."

3Nora was puzzled. She knew that a mint was a kind of candy. What could candy have to do with a penny? She opened the club's dictionary to find out.

4Then Pedro asked to trade his old nickel for Nora's new penny. At first, Nora said no. But after she looked at the nickel's worn edges and its old date, she changed her mind.

5Pedro grinned, but he looked a little sad, too. "I will miss my nickel," he said. "Can I visit it next Wednesday?"

Dictionary Page 92

Guide words: map and mitten

map (noun) A drawing that shows where places are.

melt (verb) To change from hard to runny when it gets warm.

mind (noun)
1. The part of a person that thinks, feels and remembers.
(verb)
2. To be upset or bothered by something.
change your mind To make a new choice that is different from your first one.

mint (noun)
1. A plant with leaves that have a fresh, cool taste.
2. A small candy with this taste.
3. A place where coins are made.
in mint condition Looking brand new, as if it just came from the mint.

miss (verb)
1. To not hit or catch something.
2. To not go to something.
3. To feel sad because someone or something is gone.

mitten (noun) A warm cover for the hand, with one part for the thumb and one part for the fingers.

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