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Teodor's Okapi Report: Checking Spelling with a Dictionary

Grade 3 dictionary practice: use guide words, ABC order and dictionary entries to find and fix the misspelled words in a report about okapis.

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Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 3
Subject
ELA
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students use guide words to decide which dictionary page a word is on.
  • Students compare words with dictionary entries to correct misspellings.
  • Students use plural forms shown in a dictionary entry to spell words.

How to use

Read Teodor's draft together and talk about which words look wrong. Then have students use the dictionary pages to answer the questions on their own.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.3.2.g

Use reference materials, including beginning dictionaries, to check and correct spellings.

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Teodor's Okapi Report: Checking Spelling with a Dictionary

Use guide words and dictionary entries to fix misspelled words.

Read the draft

Teodor wrote this first draft of a report. Some words are misspelled. Read it carefully.

The Okapi, by Teodor

1The okapi is a shy animal that lives in a thick forist in central Africa. Its name is said like oh-KAH-pee. It is hard to spot because it hides among the trees and moves very quietly. Okapis usually live alone, not in herds.

2An okapi looks a bit like a horse, but its closest relative is the jiraffe. Its body is covered in short, soft brown fer. White strypes on its legs help it hide in the dark forist. Male okapis have two short horns on their heads.

3The okapi eats leevs, buds and fruit. It wraps its long, dark tung around a branch and pulls off the leevs. It is so long that the okapi can even clean its own ears with it!

4Okapis are not easy to find in the wild. Still, I think they are one of the most amazing animals in the world. I hope I get to see one someday.

Use the dictionary pages

Guide words at the top of a dictionary page show the first and last entry on that page. Every word on the page comes between them in ABC order.

Three pages from Teodor's dictionary (only some entries are shown)

Page 112 Guide words: forest — giraffe
forest noun a large area covered with trees
fruit noun the part of a plant that holds its seeds and is often good to eat
fur noun the soft, thick hair that covers some animals
giraffe noun a tall African animal with a very long neck and long legs

Page 151 Guide words: lead — lick
lead verb to show the way
leaf noun, plural leaves one of the flat, green parts that grow from the stem or branch of a plant
leg noun one of the body parts that an animal or person stands and walks on
lick verb to move your tongue over something

Page 240 Guide words: shy — tongue
shy adjective quiet and a little afraid around others
stripe noun a long, thin band of color
thick adjective having many things growing close together
tongue noun the soft part inside the mouth used for tasting and eating
1.
Which word could also be on page 112, between the guide words forest and giraffe?
  • A. frog
  • B. feather
  • C. goat
  • D. grass
2.
A full dictionary has more words than the ones shown. Use the guide words to sort each word by the page it would be on.
foxslothlettucefuzzyleapsnout
Page 112Page 151Page 240
3.
Teodor wants to look up these words: shy, okapi, leaf, buds. Which list shows them in ABC order?
  • A. leaf, buds, shy, okapi
  • B. buds, leaf, okapi, shy
  • C. buds, okapi, leaf, shy
  • D. okapi, buds, leaf, shy

Fix the report

Compare Teodor's words with the dictionary entries. Then fix his spelling.

4.
This sentence is from paragraph 2. Circle the TWO words that are misspelled.

Whitestrypesonitslegshelpithideinthedarkforist.

5.
Use the dictionary entries. Write each word from Teodor's report with the correct spelling.

jiraffe →  
fer →  
tung →  

6.
Before he found the right page, Teodor looked for jiraffe on the j pages and could not find it. What should he have tried next?
  • A. Look on the y pages, since y can make the j sound.
  • B. Look on the j pages again, but turn them faster.
  • C. Skip the word and leave it spelled the same way.
  • D. Look on the g pages, since g can make the j sound.
7.
Teodor wrote leevs in paragraph 3. He found the entry for leaf on page 151. Which sentence is spelled correctly?
  • A. The okapi pulls leafs off the branch.
  • B. The okapi pulls leeves off the branch.
  • C. The okapi pulls leaves off the branch.
  • D. The okapi pulls leavs off the branch.
8.
Teodor's friend Seren says, "If a word looks right to me, I don't need to check it." Why is it a good idea to check a dictionary anyway? Use one word from Teodor's report as an example.

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