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3rd - 6th Grade Context Clues Worksheets : Page 2

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

Use this short story to help your students practice identifying the root words &quot;son&quot; and &quot;sect&quot; in context.

Read & Find Root Words #1

What is the rocky cycle? This info sheet answers that question with the help of a colorful diagram and a shout out to important vocabulary.

What is the Rock Cycle?

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

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

How Do You Use Context Clues?

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

Reading Comprehension: Black Beauty

Children build their vocabulary in this word meaning and spelling worksheet by learning 10 new vocabulary words, along with their definitions, then writing them on the spaces provided.

Build Vocabulary: Word Meaning and Spelling #1

Use this resource with your students to practice making connections between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will identify the relationships between words and their meanings.

Working with Analogies

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

Examine the Song “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”

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

Context Clues Check-In

Children expand their vocabulary with this hands-on fill-in-the-blank activity.

Fill in the Blank with Vivid Vocabulary

Practice determining the meaning of unknown words in context with Read and Find Root Words #2!

Read & Find Root Words #2

Help your third grader with reading comprehension in this fun activity page on Rudyard Kipling's charming story, "The Elephant's Child."

The Elephant's Child

Children will practice writing career words like &quot;thespian,&quot; &quot;architect,&quot; and &quot;physician&quot; in this spelling practice worksheet.

Spelling List: Careers

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

Context Counts!

Beginning readers, enjoy this passage from Twain's classic "The Prince and the Pauper" and then complete some vocabulary and comprehension questions.

Reading Comprehension: The Prince and the Pauper

Practice determining the meaning of unknown words in context with&nbsp;Read and Find Root Words #3!

Read & Find Root Words #3

This graphic organizer provides an opportunity to keep track of key vocabulary words they encounter within an informational text.

Taking Notes With Informational Texts: Key Vocabulary

"Casey at the Bat" is a poem written by Ernest Thayer in 1888. Children will read this poem all the way through, then go back and answer the questions for each stanza.

Casey at the Bat Poem

Children are introduced to two beautiful examples of the power of words in this “I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song worksheet.

“I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song

Your student can practice reading a unique style of dialogue with this worksheet on "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

Understanding Dialogue: Tom Sawyer

Assess your students’ ability to use context clues to determine the meaning of fifth grade level vocabulary.

How Do You Use Context Clues? Exercise #2

Context clues help readers discern the meaning of new vocabulary terms in their reading. Use this worksheet to help your students organize unfamiliar words and transfer their context clues and definitions to a table.

Context Clues Table

Your third grader will have fun figuring out clues with this colorful crossword puzzle all about Christmas! She&#39;ll even sneak in some handwriting practice too.

Christmas Crossword Puzzle

In this worksheet, children read Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale The Snowdrop, reimagined here as a drama.

A Retelling of Han Christian Andersen's The Snowdrop

Young readers will enjoy this passage from Jack London's "All Gold Canyon." They'll complete some vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises too.

Reading Comprehension: All Gold Canyon

Embark on an adventure through the woods with the Mole, in this excerpt from Kenneth Grahame's charming book, The Wind in the Willows.

Reading: The Wind in the Willows

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Working with Analogies 2

Your child can achieve spelling stardom with this silver screen-themed spelling test especially for 4th graders.

4th Grade Spelling Test: At the Movies

Assess your students’ ability to use context clues to determine the meaning of vocabulary at the fifth grade level.

How Do You Use Context Clues? Exercise #3

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