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This material helps students learn how to use a dictionary by understanding two key ideas:

1. ABC Order – This means arranging words from A to Z, just like letters in the alphabet. For example, “apple” comes before “banana,” and “cat” comes before “dog.” When you’re putting words in ABC order, you look at the first letter. If those are the same, you look at the second letter, and so on.

2. Guide Words – These are the two words printed at the top of each dictionary page. The left word is the first word on that page; the right word is the last word on that page. Any word that falls between them (in ABC order) can be found on that page. For example, if the guide words are “light – like,” then any word starting with “li” that comes after “light” and before “like” would be on that page — but since “like” comes before “light” alphabetically, this might be a typo or trick! Actually, “light” comes after “like,” so correct guide words should be “like – light.” That means words like “lily,” “lime,” or “lint” would fit there.

Let’s walk through one example from the worksheet:

> Example:
> Guide words: “shade - sharp”
> Words to check: shaky, shabby, shark, sharp, shaggy, sheriff, shamrock, shelf, shack, server

We need to find which of these words fall between “shade” and “sharp” in ABC order.

Step-by-step:
- “shade” starts with “sha-d-e”
- “sharp” starts with “sha-r-p”

So we’re looking for words that start with “sha” and come after “shade” but before “sharp”.

Check each:
- “shaky” → sha-k-y → k comes before d? No — “k” comes after “d”? Wait — let’s compare letter by letter.
- “shade”: s-h-a-d-e
- “shaky”: s-h-a-k-y → fourth letter: “k” vs “d” → “d” comes before “k”, so “shade” < “shaky” → YES, it could be included IF “shaky” < “sharp”
- “sharp”: s-h-a-r-p → fourth letter: “r” → “k” < “r” → so “shaky” is between “shade” and “sharp” → INCLUDE

Wait — actually, let’s re-sort properly.

Better approach: List all words and sort them alphabetically, then see which fall between “shade” and “sharp”.

Words: shaky, shabby, shark, sharp, shaggy, sheriff, shamrock, shelf, shack, server

Sort them:
1. server → s-e-r... → comes before “sha” → too early → EXCLUDE
2. shack → s-h-a-c-k → c comes before d → so “shack” < “shade” → EXCLUDE
3. shabby → s-h-a-b-b-y → b < d → EXCLUDE
4. shade → our start point → INCLUDE? Usually guide words include the first and last, so maybe yes.
5. shaky → s-h-a-k-y → k > d → so after shade → now check if before sharp: k < r → yes → INCLUDE
6. shamrock → s-h-a-m-r-o-c-k → m > d → after shade → m < r → before sharp → INCLUDE
7. shelf → s-h-e-l-f → e > a → wait, “shelf” starts with “she”, while others are “sha” → “she” comes after “sha” because ‘e’ > ‘a’? No — actually, “sha” vs “she”: third letter ‘a’ vs ‘e’ → ‘a’ comes before ‘e’, so “sha...” comes before “she...” → so “shelf” comes AFTER “sharp”? Let’s check:
- “sharp”: s-h-a-r-p
- “shelf”: s-h-e-l-f → third letter: ‘a’ vs ‘e’ → ‘a’ < ‘e’ → so “sharp” < “shelf” → so “shelf” comes after “sharp” → EXCLUDE
8. shark → s-h-a-r-k → compare to “sharp”: s-h-a-r-k vs s-h-a-r-p → fifth letter: k vs p → k < p → so “shark” < “sharp” → INCLUDE
9. shaggy → s-h-a-g-g-y → g > d → after shade → g < r → before sharp → INCLUDE
10. sheriff → s-h-e-r-i-f-f → again, “she” > “sha” → so after “sharp” → EXCLUDE

So words between “shade” and “sharp” (inclusive?):
- shady? Not listed. But from list:
→ shaky, shamrock, shark, shaggy

Also “shade” itself — if inclusive, include it. “sharp” — if inclusive, include it.

But typically, guide words mean words that appear ON that page — so usually includes the first and last.

In the original worksheet, for “shade - sharp”, they likely expect:
shabby? No — too early.
Actually, let’s double-check sorting:

Alphabetical order of given words:
server, shack, shabby, shade, shaky, shamrock, shark, shaggy, shelf, sheriff

Now, where does “shade” fall? Position 4.
“sharp” — not even in the list! Oh — “sharp” is one of the guide words, not necessarily in the word list.

The instruction says: “circle the words that would fall on the same page as the following guide words.”

So for guide words “shade - sharp”, we want words that come after or equal to “shade” and before or equal to “sharp”.

From sorted list:
- shade → include
- shaky → include
- shamrock → include
- shark → include
- shaggy → include
- shelf → comes after sharp? “shelf” vs “sharp”:
- s-h-e vs s-h-a → ‘e’ > ‘a’ → so “shelf” > “sharp” → exclude
Similarly, “sheriff” > “sharp” → exclude

What about “shack”? s-h-a-c-k vs s-h-a-d-e → c < d → so “shack” < “shade” → exclude

So final answer for that part: shade, shaky, shamrock, shark, shaggy

But in the actual worksheet, they may have different expectations. Since this is just background, and no specific problem was assigned, I’ll stop here.

Final Answer:
No specific problem was selected to solve. The image shows worksheets for practicing ABC order and dictionary guide words, which help students learn how to organize words alphabetically and locate them in a dictionary using guide words at the top of each page.