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In this worksheet, learners will practice using context clues to find the meaning of eight compound words.

Compound Word Meaning

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

Shades of Meaning: Word Ladders

Children will draw from a word bank to form five new compound words, then write and illustrate their meaning.

Compound Words: Match, Meaning, and Draw

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

Glossary: Multiple-Meaning Words

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

Texting: Shades of Meaning

This lesson will help students understand multiple-meaning words through the use of artistic and theatrical representation! Use as a stand-alone activity or a support lesson for Let's Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Texts!

Multiple-Meaning Words

Early readers can use picture clues to help figure out new or unknown words. In this reading fluency worksheet, students learn how examining pictures for context clues can help them decode text.

Word Meaning: Picture 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 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.

There are many ways to figure out the meanings of unknown words. Through this worksheet, students record unknown words and find out their meaning using a variety of strategies.

Read the Word Clues

Use this worksheet to practice determining the meaning of the new word formed when a prefix is added to a base word.

Perfect Prefixes Practice

Can you determine where each word goes? Practice your language and logic skills in this colorful worksheet!

Word Categories

Work on word-building with this fun activity that doubles as an English exercise.

Compound Word Puzzle

Prefixes and suffixes are essential to understanding the meaning of words. Help kids grasp these concepts with this word-matching game.

Prefix & Suffix Fish Game

This football-themed word search is a great way to help score a touchdown in spelling and sports vocabulary!

Football Word Search

This word-building worksheet gets your child to see the interesting connections between words. Explore suffixes in this wordplay worksheet.

Compound Word Game

Gobble gobble! Help your kid learn about Thanksgiving with this colorful word search printable.

Thanksgiving Word Search: Easy

Children add more transition words to their sequencing arsenal in this word-sorting worksheet.

Time Transition Word Sort

Using a picture as a clue, kids put two words together to make a compound word for each item on this reading worksheet.

Word Addition: Compound Words 1

In this lesson, students will identify new vocabulary words from a text read aloud. After selecting new words, they will create their own picture dictionaries to learn the meaning of each new word. 

 
 
 				


Learning New Vocabulary

Learners will hone their grammar and vocabulary skills as they identify the compound word in each of 10 problems.

Choose the Compound Word #1

Transition words are essential to good writing! They provide structure and organization by connecting ideas and sentences. Help your students become familiar with common transition words with this fun word search!

Transition Word Search

Wordsmiths will enjoy this word-building activity that focuses on suffixes. Challenge your child to find a common suffix between three words in this worksheet.

Compound Word Puzzle 2

Help your students review root words so they can analyze unfamiliar words and figure out the meaning without using a dictionary. In this worksheet, students will identify the root of each word containing suffixes and prefixes.

Finding Root Words

In this hilarious lesson plan filled with homophones, students will get to practice identifying and using multiple meaning words. This can be used on its own or as a pre-lesson for the Multiple Meaning Motivation lesson plan.

Words that Sound the Same

This worksheet will teach your child how to scrunch two words together to get one compound word.

Compound Words: One Word from Two

This lesson will help your students use sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text. Students will enjoy learning about maps and figuring out tricky words along the way!

Using Context Clues to Understand Word Meanings

With the help of picture clues, kids will find two words that make a single compound word. Have your child put "sun" and "flower" together in this worksheet.

Word Addition: Compound Words 2

On this reading worksheet, kids connect words in the first column to words in the second column to make compound words. Then they write the words.

Compound Words: Word to Word

This lesson will help students explore using a dictionary to figure out tricky words with suffixes. Use as a stand-alone activity or a support for the Understanding Academic Vocabulary in a Nonfiction Text lesson.

Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words

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