Weekly Boost Guided Lessons Learning Resources Teaching Tools

Sign Up

Determining Meaning Using Context Cues

Be a text detective with context clues. Not sure what a word means? Look at the words around it, and think about the story so far, for hints. Context clues help new readers build their vocabulary and develop new comprehension skills, too. If your student is learning how to use context clues, we’ve got everything you need to teach them, with worksheets, activities, games, and lots more.

Sort by

Current Filters (94 results):

Determining Meaning Using Context Cues

Fill in the Blanks Story: Camping

Go on a crazy camping adventure with this fill-in-the-blanks story! Your student can practice his parts of speech as he fills in the missing words.

Fill in the Blanks Story

Create your own crazy story with this fill-in-the-blank story! Your budding writer will practice parts of speech as he fills in missing parts of the story.

Context Clues Worksheet: Word Mystery

Context clues worksheets help your child read between the lines. Try this context clues worksheet with your young reader to help him infer based on text.

Challenge your fourth grader with these spelling worksheets that include grade-specific words and word problems involving new vocabulary.

Reading Skills: Sentences to Stories

The reading and writing practice in this workbook will get kids thinking about all the different parts that go into a good story, like vocabulary, structure and sequencing.

Get Ready for Third Grade

This workbook helps third graders brush up on their skills over the summer months by engaging them with targeted practice in core subjects, including word study, math, reading and writing.

Reading Comprehension: The Secret Garden

Your little reader is sure to enjoy this selection from the children's classic, "The Secret Garden." She'll build her vocabulary and reading skills.

Fill in the Blanks Story: Cooking

Let's cook up a funny story! This fun fill-in-the-blank is sure to please any beginning writer. He'll practice parts of speech as he goes.

Context Clues: Word Sleuth

This third grade reading worksheet offers practice using context clues to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word in a sentence.

Voracious Vocabulary

Building a good vocabulary is an important step in becoming a great writer. Here are 17 awesome vocabulary and spelling lists that can help your child grow into a well-spoken scholar.

Poetry, Prose, and Drama, Oh My!

Nourish your child's inner writer with this lesson on three different forms of literature: poetry, prose, and drama. After going through some examples of each, students will demonstrate their knowledge by filling out bubble maps.

Stress-Free Spelling Practice

This workbook is packed with challenging third grade spelling words that your child can practice writing and applying to his or her vocabulary.

Homophones: Hold the Homophone!

Want your students to/too/two use the right/write words when/win writing? This lesson will teach them about homophones and the different ways/weighs they are used.

Analogies Worksheet: We're Related!

This analogies worksheet helps children compare two unlike things. Try our analogies worksheet with your third grader to strengthen reading and writing skills.

Landforms For Kids

Learn the lay of the land with a comprehensive breakdown of Earth's landforms. From buttes to fjords, kids will learn all the terminology and science behind the amazing structures of our planet.

Reading Comprehension: Black Beauty

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

Dive Into Context Clues

Help your students flex their vocabulary muscles with this lesson on using context clues. By deciphering the meanings of different nonsense words, young readers will greatly improve their comprehension skills.

Vocabulary Practice: Choose the Definition

Test your third grader's vocabulary with this nifty practice test that quizzes her on word definitions

How the Whale Got His Throat

Enjoy "How the Whale Got His Throat" by Rudyard Kipling, and complete some reading comprehension activities, including a few coloring pages!

Reading Nonfiction

Explore nonfiction with this set of short and sweet facts on notable people, places and events in history. Young readers can practice taking notes, answering questions and analyzing primary sources.

Vocabulary Expanders

These vocabulary worksheets will introduce kids to the wide world of words and get them excited about learning new skills through reading.

Build Vocabulary 1

Kids can build their vocabulary and spelling skills with this worksheet. Your child will learn the definitions for vocabulary words and use them in context.

Vocabulary Quiz: Context Clues

Sentence clues can help us identify the meaning of new words. Kids use this strategy to identify synonyms in this quiz game.

Road Trip Games

Beat boredom with this ensemble of printables! Kids will be occupied for hours with bingo, fill-in-the-blanks and different license plate games. Beware: they may result in spelling and math practice.

Page:

1 2 3 4

How likely are you to recommend Education.com to your friends and colleagues?

Not at all likely

Extremely likely