Student Dictionary

Each student will acquire many words throughout the year they are unfamiliar with. As teachers’, it is our job to help them to understand various words so they might increase their vocabulary and knowledge. Making a student dictionary will help them to increase this knowledge.

As the year goes on, each student will be required to keep their own dictionary. In the student dictionary the student may write and describe words they do not understand. They may retrieve definitions from other dictionaries, parents, siblings, and teachers. It should also be encouraged that each definition has an example and picture as well. This will help the students to understand the concepts. The teacher will periodically check the student dictionary to see if words are spelled correctly and if definitions are correct. When the year is coming to an end, the teacher can then collect all students’ dictionaries and combine them to make one big dictionary for each student to keep with them.