English Language: Elementary School: 1st and 2nd Grade Quiz - Grade 2 Language - Dictionary Use for Spellings (Questions)

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Students will need to use resources to help with their writing. Mainly, they need to use beginning dictionaries. Students will need to consult a dictionary when they don't know how to spell a word. This will improve their writing. In the quiz, the students will use dictionary entries and pictures to choose the correct spelling of the word.

Dictionary Entries

GARAGE a place for a car
GATE a part of a fence that opens
GLAD happy
GOLDEN gold color
GRADE A+, B, C, D, or F
GRAIN a crop used for bread
GREAT very good
GROCERY a place to buy food
GUESS to predict
HAMMER a tool for nails
HANDKERCHIEF a cloth napkin
HEARD listened
HEART an organ that pumps blood
HOUR 60 minutes
ICE frozen water
INDOORS inside
INSTEAD to use in place of
IRON a tool for making clothes smooth
JUICE a fruit drink
KNEE a joint in the leg
LADY a woman
LAID to lay down
LAMP a light for a table
LEATHER fabric made from animal skin
LEMONADE a drink made of lemons
LESSON learning a skill in class
LETTUCE a green leafy vegetable
LIE to not tell the truth
LIP top and bottom part of the mouth
LOAD a heavy amount of something to carry
LOW close to the ground

(To see a larger image, click on the picture.)

1.

Look at the picture. Use the dictionary entries above. Which word from the dictionary entries matches the picture?

[ ]	ice
[ ]	juice
[ ]	iron
[ ]	grade

2.

Look at the picture. Use the dictionary entries above. Which word from the dictionary entries matches the picture?

[ ]	lamp
[ ]	lesson
[ ]	leather
[ ]	lemonade

3.

Look at the picture. Use the dictionary entries above. Which word from the dictionary entries matches the picture?

[ ]	grade
[ ]	grain
[ ]	great
[ ]	grocery

4.

Look at the picture. Use the dictionary entries above. Which word from the dictionary entries matches the picture?

[ ]	handerkerchef
[ ]	handkerchif
[ ]	handkerchef
[ ]	handkerchief

5.

Look at the picture. Use the dictionary entries above. Which word from the dictionary entries matches the picture?

[ ]	hart
[ ]	hour
[ ]	heart
[ ]	hert

6.

Look at the picture. Use the dictionary entries above. Which word from the dictionary entries matches the picture?

[ ]	low
[ ]	lode
[ ]	load
[ ]	lie

7.

Look at the picture. Use the dictionary entries above. Which word from the dictionary entries matches the picture?

[ ]	laid
[ ]	lade
[ ]	lad
[ ]	lady

8.

Look at the picture. Use the dictionary entries above. Which word from the dictionary entries matches the picture?

[ ]	grage
[ ]	grade
[ ]	graje
[ ]	garage

9.

Look at the picture. Use the dictionary entries above. Which word from the dictionary entries matches the picture?

[ ]	gald
[ ]	glad
[ ]	gad
[ ]	blad

10.

Look at the picture. Use the dictionary entries above. Which word from the dictionary entries matches the picture?

[ ]	gess
[ ]	guess
[ ]	great
[ ]	golden

English Language: Elementary School: 1st and 2nd Grade Quiz - Grade 2 Language - Dictionary Use for Spellings (Answers)

1.

Look at the picture. Use the dictionary entries above. Which word from the dictionary entries matches the picture?

[ ]	ice
[ ]	juice
[x]	iron
[ ]	grade

The picture shows an iron.

2.

Look at the picture. Use the dictionary entries above. Which word from the dictionary entries matches the picture?

[ ]	lamp
[ ]	lesson
[ ]	leather
[x]	lemonade

Lemonade is the drink in the picture.

3.

Look at the picture. Use the dictionary entries above. Which word from the dictionary entries matches the picture?

[ ]	grade
[x]	grain
[ ]	great
[ ]	grocery

This is a picture of grain which is spelled g-r-a-i-n.

4.

Look at the picture. Use the dictionary entries above. Which word from the dictionary entries matches the picture?

[ ]	handerkerchef
[ ]	handkerchif
[ ]	handkerchef
[x]	handkerchief

A handkerchief is in the picture.

5.

Look at the picture. Use the dictionary entries above. Which word from the dictionary entries matches the picture?

[ ]	hart
[ ]	hour
[x]	heart
[ ]	hert

Heart is in the picture and is spelled h-e-a-r-t.

6.

Look at the picture. Use the dictionary entries above. Which word from the dictionary entries matches the picture?

[ ]	low
[ ]	lode
[x]	load
[ ]	lie

This is a picture of a heavy load.

7.

Look at the picture. Use the dictionary entries above. Which word from the dictionary entries matches the picture?

[ ]	laid
[ ]	lade
[ ]	lad
[x]	lady

This is a picture of a lady.

8.

Look at the picture. Use the dictionary entries above. Which word from the dictionary entries matches the picture?

[ ]	grage
[ ]	grade
[ ]	graje
[x]	garage

This is the first entry in the dictionary above.

9.

Look at the picture. Use the dictionary entries above. Which word from the dictionary entries matches the picture?

[ ]	gald
[x]	glad
[ ]	gad
[ ]	blad

This man is glad because he is smiling.

10.

Look at the picture. Use the dictionary entries above. Which word from the dictionary entries matches the picture?

[ ]	gess
[x]	guess
[ ]	great
[ ]	golden

This man is making a guess.