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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.

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Determining Meaning Using Context Clues
Context Clues Worksheet: Word Mystery
Worksheet
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.
3rd Grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Fill in the Blanks Story: Camping
Worksheet
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.
3rd Grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Vocabulary Quiz: Context Clues
Game
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.
2nd Grade
Reading & Writing
Game
Get Ready for Third Grade
Workbook
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.
3rd Grade
Reading & Writing
Workbook
Dive Into Context Clues
Lesson Plan
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.
5th Grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson Plan
Fill in the Blanks Story
Worksheet
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.
3rd Grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Fill in the Blanks Story: Cooking
Worksheet
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.
3rd Grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Context Clues: Finding Word Meanings
Worksheet
Context Clues: Finding Word Meanings
Use this resource to assess your students’ ability to determine word meanings from context clues.
3rd Grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Context Clues: Word Sleuth
Worksheet
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.
3rd Grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Poetry, Prose, and Drama, Oh My!
Lesson Plan
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.
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson Plan
Voracious Vocabulary
Workbook
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.
5th Grade
Reading & Writing
Workbook
Reading Comprehension: The Secret Garden
Worksheet
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.
5th Grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Reading Skills: Sentences to Stories
Workbook
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.
3rd Grade
Reading & Writing
Workbook
Homophones: Hold the Homophone!
Lesson Plan
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.
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson Plan
Stress-Free Spelling Practice
Workbook
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.
3rd Grade
Reading & Writing
Workbook
Reading Comprehension: Peter Pan
Worksheet
Reading Comprehension: Peter Pan
Familiarize your child with Peter Pan, one of the most enduring character of children's literature, with this reading comprehension worksheet.
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Close Reading Through Word Choice
Lesson Plan
Close Reading Through Word Choice
Every great reader and writer knows that syntax matters. During this lesson, students will use the close reading strategy to focus on word choice, and use their understanding of syntax to develop theories about patterns in the text.
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson Plan
Vocabulary Expanders
Workbook
Vocabulary Expanders
These vocabulary worksheets will introduce kids to the wide world of words and get them excited about learning new skills through reading.
3rd Grade
Reading & Writing
Workbook
Landforms For Kids
Workbook
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.
3rd Grade
Social Studies
Workbook
Analogies Worksheet: We're Related!
Worksheet
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.
3rd Grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Spelling Champ
Workbook
Spelling Champ
Challenge your fourth grader with these spelling worksheets that include grade-specific words and word problems involving new vocabulary.
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
Workbook
The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo Comprehension
Worksheet
The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo Comprehension
Students will read a story by Rudyard Kipling and answer comprehension questions that follow.
3rd Grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Reading for Comprehension: More Cause and Effect
Worksheet
Reading for Comprehension: More Cause and Effect
How do events change characters in the story, or the story itself? Use this worksheet to review the concept of cause and effect.
3rd Grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Using Context Clues
Worksheet
Using Context Clues
Instead of looking a word up in the dictionary, practice using context clues to find the meaning of unknown words.
5th Grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Context Clue Detectives
Lesson Plan
Context Clue Detectives
Young detectives will have a blast as they find context clues and solve a mystery in this fun-filled lesson plan. By paying close attention to a story, students will figure out missing letters to decipher a hidden message.
1st Grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson Plan

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