Dictionary Skills Alphabetical Order Worksheet

Build dictionary-order skills by alphabetizing short word groups and longer lists. Five practice pages are followed by a checking page.
Grades
Grades 2–3
Pages
6
File type
PDF
Answer key
Included

Updated Aug 03, 2021

Subject
ELA, Vocabulary
Topic
Dictionary skills, Alphabetical order
Resource types
Worksheets
Answer key
Included
Standards
L.2.2

Product description

From the author

This Alphabetical Order Worksheet is a great way to help your students learn how to put words that begin with the same letter in ABC order.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Arrange words in alphabetical order

  • Compare successive letters when words share a beginning

  • Apply the same ordering method to short and longer lists

Teaching tips

  • Model comparing successive letters with glove, globe, glue and glow.

  • Use the shorter groups before the eleven-word lists, then check each complete sequence.

Skills covered

  • Dictionary navigation — Predict where words fall in an alphabetical reference

  • Ordering vocabulary — Sequence mixed words by successive letters

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Does the resource practice more than ordering by the first letter?

Yes. Groups such as glove, globe, glue and glow require students to compare letters beyond the first.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • L.2.2

Core concepts

  • Dictionary skills

  • Alphabetical order

  • Comparing successive letters

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