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Your students will practice using sentence clues to identify the meaning of homographs.

Multiple Meaning Words: Multiple Choice

Assess kids' ability to define new words using context clues.

How Do You Use Context Clues?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Idiom Meanings and Context Clues.

Vocabulary Cards: Idiom Meanings and Context Clues

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.

Context Clues Worksheet: Word Mystery

Context clues are a powerful tool for all readers! Use this lesson to teach your students how to utilize context clues to determine the meanings of unknown words.

Get Clued In to Context Clues

Your students will infer the meaning of unknown figurative language examples by using context clues.

Making Sense of Figurative Language 1

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Vocabulary Cards: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

Explore figurative language in context with this personification worksheet designed for fifth through eigth graders!&nbsp;

Personification in Context

Students will be able to understand words without a dictionary after they work through this exercise teaching how to determine the meaning of words using roots, prefixes, and suffixes.


Determine Meaning Using Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

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

Vocabulary Quiz: Context Clues

Introduce your students to these common English idioms, used in the context of a sentence.

Idioms in Context

Idioms are a challenging piece of figurative language for students, but it can be an easier task with the help of context clues. Use this as a stand-alone lesson or as a pre-lesson for the *Capturing the Clues* lesson.

Idiom Meanings and Context Clues

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words.

Glossary: Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Vocabulary in Context.

Glossary: Vocabulary in Context

Why walk when you can mosey? In this lesson, students will learn how to use synonyms to express shades of meaning in their writing. Introduce the topic with a book, then brainstorm descriptive options for overused words.

Synonyms: Using Shades of Meaning

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

Metaphors in Context

Give your readers the tools to decipher the meaning of Greek and Latin based words. In this lesson they review the meaning of commonly used prefixes, suffixes and roots and then practice constructing and deciphering words.

Using Word Parts to Determine the Meaning of Words

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words.

Vocabulary Cards: Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words.

In this worksheet, students will use context clues to help make sense of unfamiliar words.

I Can Use Context Clues!

Students will learn how knowledge of word parts can help readers determine the meaning of words. This interactive lesson will have students reviewing and putting into practice some of the most common prefixes. 

Practice Using Prefixes to Determine Word Meaning

Are you careful, caring, or careless? A suffix is a word part that changes the meaning of a word. Use this lesson with your students to teach them how to determine word meaning based on their understanding of the meaning of common suffixes.

Word Meaning with Common Suffixes

Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to determine the meaning of idioms.

Figurative Language: Idioms

If your students need support in matching obscure words with the deeper meaning, invite them to use the clues on this worksheet to match words and phrases with their corresponding meanings.

Match the Meaning

Learn more about the small differences in meaning between similar words with this engaging worksheet!

Shades of Meaning: Matching

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Multiple-Meaning Words.

Glossary: Multiple-Meaning Words

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Vocabulary in Context.

Vocabulary Cards: Vocabulary in Context

Practice ranking words by intensity in this shades of meaning worksheet!

Shades of Meaning: Word Ladders

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.

Context Clue Detectives

Even fluent readers sometimes come across words they can’t decode. In this worksheet, students practice using pictures and context cues to figure out unknown words.

Read/Guess/Check

Happy, thrilled, delighted! In this shades of meaning game, kids identify common synonyms that are grouped together.

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