Building Words with dict
(visual/oral/auditory/kinesthetic)
Have students look up the word root dict in the section titled "Word Parts," beginning on page 276 of the Spelling-Meaning Index.
Ask them to create a word web for dict. If they like, they can create a web that suggests speaking in the way that the earphones and tapes in the aud web in their book suggest hearing.
Have students check the definitions in a class dictionary and write a sentence for each word.
They can then read each sentence to a classmate, leaving out the dict word, and have the classmate fill in the word.
| dict Words for Web |
contradict
dictate
dcitator
diction
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dictionary
predict
valedictorian
verdict
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