Roe, Smith and Burns (2005) identify dictionaries as valuable tools that help in completing many kinds of reading tasks. They can help students determine pronunciation, meaning, derivations and parts of speech for words they encounter in reading activities.
They can also help with word spellings if children have some idea of how the words are spelled and need only to confirm the order of letters within the words.
Picture dictionaries are used primarily for sight word recognition and
spelling assistance. Children can be introduced to picture dictionaries as early as the first standard. They can learn how dictionaries are put together and how they function by making their own picture dictionaries.
As a study method technique children need to learn three important skills: alphabetic order, using guide words and locating variants and derivatives.
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