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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Context Clues: Finding Word Meanings

Use this resource to assess your students’ ability to determine word meanings from context clues.

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.

Historical Heroes: Maya Angelou

Learn more about author, activist and poet Maya Angelou with this Historical Heroes printable - a great addition to celebrating Black History Month.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo Comprehension

Students will read a story by Rudyard Kipling and answer comprehension questions that follow.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Using Context Clues

Instead of looking a word up in the dictionary, practice using context clues to find the meaning of unknown words.

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.

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.

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

Close Reading: Reading Through Character Emotion

Close reading isn’t about just ticking through words on a page; it’s about absorbing ideas and expanding on them. In this lesson, students will use this strategy to make interpretations about a character's emotions through their actions.

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.

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