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Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

Vocabulary Think & Seek

In this fun worksheet, children learn the meanings of nine homographs, then combine them to write their own creative sentences.

Double Meaning Words

In this two-page worksheet, learners will use context clues to decipher the meaning of idioms used on literal and non-literal contexts.

Idioms: Explaining Literal and Nonliteral Language

Use this worksheet to give children a challenge as they use context clues and their detective skills to figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Be a Word Detective

Get ready for some active reading! As your students read through this passage, they will underline key words and reinforce their understanding of words in context.

Nonfiction Comprehension: Context Clues & Text Features

Help your students practice using root words, prefixes, and suffixes to change words and to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Practice Using Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

Use this resource to practice identifying words with suffixes and determining the meaning of the word.

Search for the Suffixes

Put all your Easter eggs in this worksheet! Help your students use the context of a sentence to discover the meaning of these Easter idioms.

Easy Easter Idioms

Learn coordinating conjunctions and use them in context with this inviting worksheet!

Using Coordinating Conjunctions: Animals

Do your students understand the deeper meaning or humor behind a play on words? In this lesson, students will learn how to interpret the meaning of oxymorons and puns, identify key words, and explain the meanings!

Deeper Meanings

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: determining importance. Support your young learners as they read, judge, justify, and defend their understanding of a text.

Reading Strategies: Determining Importance

Test your knowledge of antonyms with this vocabulary worksheet!

Antonyms in Context

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

Words are the wondrous building blocks in language. This unit increases students’ word knowledge by introducing more challenging vocabulary and exploring how words are related. Learners will also discover some of the ways words are constructed using derivational root words, prefixes, suffixes, and compound words. Students will get to explore and create fun literary devices such as similes, idioms and metaphors.

Word Meaning 2

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

This exercise will give your students practice identifying synonyms and using them in context.

Substitute with Synonyms

Hook your students with this vocabulary builder that encourages them to draw emojis as they explore synonyms and strengthen their emotional intelligence.

Shades of Meaning

Collect examples of personification as you read with this helpful worksheet!

Personification: Examples in Context

Emphasize student understanding and reasoning! This lesson plan helps learners solve story problems using sense-making strategies. This can be used alongside the lesson Solving Word Problems or as a stand-alone lesson.

Reflect on the Context First!

Working on figurative language skills? Assess student understanding of simple hyperboles with this writing exercise. Your kids will be hyperbole hotshots when they've finished this worksheet!

Hyperbole Meaning

Pronouns will no longer be a mystery to your students as they discover how to position and use them! In this lesson, students will explore the form and use of demonstrative and reflexive pronouns, clarifying the meaning in context.

Pronouns, Positioned!

Multiple Meaning Words: Matching

Help young readers make inferences using context clues with this worksheet.

Practice Making Inferences

Vocabulary development helps second graders advance their reading and writing skills. This guided lesson uses exercises and techniques targeted to building vocabulary. Kids will be tasked with using descriptive adjectives, distinguishing between similar verbs and adjectives, and using context clues to determine the meaning of a word phrase. For more vocabulary boosters, check out the worksheets that align with this lesson.

Vocabulary 1

Use this exercise with your students to practice identifying adjectives that describe a character. They will then organize them on a graphic organizer.

Adjectives in Context

Students will learn to identify onomatopoeia using a word bank and context clues.

Practice Onomatopoeia!

Teach your class to develop strong inferencing skills by focusing on clues and hard evidence. In this lesson, students will play a game of “What’s for Breakfast?” to help them link context clues with word meaning.

What's For Breakfast?

Learners practice using pronouns in context in this fill-in-the-blanks grammar worksheet.

Pick a Pronoun

Assess your students’ vocabulary knowledge using strategies like root words and context.

5th Grade: Vocabulary Strategies

Children practice using context clues to find the correct definition of 10 words in this engaging multiple-choice worksheet.

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