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Pickle Day with Uncle Ray: Using a Glossary

Read a story about making pickles at home, then use its glossary to find the precise meaning of key kitchen words.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.3.4.d

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

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What students practice

Students use a glossary to find the precise meaning of key words in a text.
Students tell when a word in a new sentence has the same meaning the glossary gives.
Students use alphabetical order to find where a word belongs in a glossary.

How to use

Read the story together and point out the bold words, then show students how to look each one up in the glossary before they answer on their own.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.3.4.d

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

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Pickle Day with Uncle Ray: Using a Glossary

Use a glossary to find the exact meaning of kitchen words.

Read the story and the glossary

Read the story. The words in bold are in the glossary below it.

Pickle Day with Uncle Ray

1Every summer, Uncle Ray turns his small kitchen into a pickle shop. This year, Rosa and her little brother Teo got to help. They put on aprons and rolled up their sleeves. First, they washed a big pile of bumpy cucumbers. Then Rosa trimmed off the ends.

2Next, Uncle Ray made the brine. He stirred salt into warm water and vinegar until he could not see the salt anymore. Rosa dropped garlic and fresh dill into each jar.

3Teo packed the cucumbers into the jars, standing them up tall. Uncle Ray poured the brine over them until every cucumber was covered. Then he pressed a lid onto each jar to seal it.

4"Now comes the hardest part," said Uncle Ray. "We have to wait." The jars went into the refrigerator to chill. A few days later, the cucumbers had soaked up the flavor of the brine. Rosa took a bite. It was sour, salty and crisp. "Pickles!" Teo cheered.