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Kids use context to figure out the meaning of words.

Using Context: Multiple Meaning Words

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

Compound Word Meaning

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

Context Clues: Word Sleuth

Children figure out the meaning of new words using context clues to find the missing family.

Lost Parents: Context Clues

Students will have better reading comprehension skills after completing this exercise that shows them how to pick out contextual clues.


Determining Meaning Using Context Clues 1

Use this resource to assess your students&rsquo; mastery of determining word meanings by utilizing context clues and an understanding of homophones and homographs.

Context Clues Learning Check

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

Context Clues: Finding Word Meanings

This multiple meaning words worksheet uses context clues to help kids make sense of homonyms, or words with multiple meanings.

Multiple Meaning Words Worksheet

Use this lesson to reinforce using sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text. This can be used as a stand alone activity or a support the Using Context Clues to Understand Word Meanings lesson.

Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

With this organizer, students will be able to find unfamiliar vocabulary as they read and use context clues to determine meaning.

Keeping Up with Context Clues

Use this resource to assess your students’ mastery of using context clues to determine word meanings.

Context Clues Check-Up

When children encounter new words, they don't need to make a beeline for the dictionary. Train them to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.

Context Clue Matching

Work on reading comprehension with this quiz to practice using context clues to find the definition of a word.

Context Clues Quiz

Looking for a worksheet to help you third grade child with vocabulary? This printable will help him by using context clues.

Context Counts!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Idiom Meanings and Context Clues.

Glossary: Idiom Meanings and Context Clues

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Glossary: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

This mid-year assessment will assess your students&rsquo; ability to determine word meanings from context clues.

Context Clues Check-In

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

Multiple Meaning Words: Multiple Choice

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

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

Idioms in Context

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

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

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

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