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Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

Finding Word Meaning: Context Clues & Text Features #2

Finding Word Meaning: Context Clues & Text Features #1

Find some words from My Vacation (Part Three) that have more than one meaning. Look at the way the word is used to figure out what it means.

Learn Vocabulary Words with Multiple Meanings

Use this reading comprehension exercise with your students to practice determining word meaning.

Vocabulary Practice: Armando’s Goal

Find presidential and historical words in this election-themed word search.

Presidential Word Search

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

This word play lesson teaches second graders about diphthongs (ow, ou, oi, oy and ew words) and tricky plural nouns (geese, feet, mice). It also introduces kids to the bossy R rule, which states that when the letter r follows a vowel it changes the way the word is pronouced, for example far, car, and fur. These rules can help second graders advance their reading fluency and spelling skills.

Word Play

See how many camping words you can spot in this word search!

My Vacation: Word Search 

Students will use context clues as they select the meaning of words.

Look Around! Using Context Clues

Build your students' emotional literacy with this handy emotion word bank! This resource provides students with visuals and a variety of emotion synonyms to increase their understanding of character traits in fictional text.

Word Bank: Emotion Charades

Use this reading comprehension passage with your students to practice determining the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Vocabulary Practice:  A Whale of a Problem

Kids will learn more about the meaning of a monster hoax and read about some of the most famous hoaxes.

Monster Hoax

This worksheet will have your students use codes to help them understand the meaning of the story.

Coding Nonfiction Text: The History of Crayons

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

Use this lesson to help your ELs summarize information from a text and use context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. This lesson can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support to the Day 4 section of the Star Unit lesson.

Summarizing Nonfiction

Students will use an adjective word bank to help them identify statements of fact and opinion.

Fact & Opinion Adjectives

You only get something out of it if you put something in! Have your child try five-part challenge, with the final goal being memorizing a poem word for word.

Poetry Memorization 2

Children read the First Amendment, then complete a simple word scramble puzzle and answer reading comprehension questions.

Learn the First Amendment

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

Summary High Five

Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

Determining a Character's Motivation

This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.

Response Writing: Comparing Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts

Here's an arsenal of April Fools' Day fodder! Kids will be armed with facts, pranks and puzzles. Plus, they'll be tickled by goofy writing prompts, silly word problems and wacky reading comprehension.

April Fools' Fun

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Summarizing with Sequence Words

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Graphic Organizer Template: Concept Web

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

Introduce second and third graders to W.E.B. Du Bois, writer, sociologist, and civil rights advocate, with this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Kids will practice listening and speaking skills in this interactive vocabulary activity. Students will pair up and take turns responding to questions about difficult words they've encountered and what they learned by using context clues and a dictionary.

Vocabulary Partner Talk

Use this worksheet to help your students understand patriotic songs, like an older national anthem.

Examine the Song “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”

Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

Paraphrasing a Passage

Dive into the sea life of Monterey, California, with this third-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

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