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3rd - 8th Grade Context Clues Resources : Page 4

This year, third graders will be taking their vocabulary to new heights and exploring such concepts as metaphor, simile, hyperbole, and personification. This guided lesson in vocabulary and figurative language offers clear and practical definitions of new words and expressions, along with plenty of practice opportunities. Understanding vocabulary and figurative language deepens reading comprehension skills and enriches the writing process.

Word Meaning 1

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 #11

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

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

Meet John Muir, the original environmentalist, in this nonfiction reading sheet.

John Muir

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

Build Vocabulary: Word Meaning and Spelling #9

Build Vocabulary: Word Meaning and Spelling #15

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: I Can Use Context Clues!

Vocabulary Cards: I Can Use Context Clues!

Introduce your child to Ramadan, a holiday celebrated by millions of Muslims around the would, with this informative worksheet.

What is Ramadan?

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

Build Vocabulary: Word Meaning and Spelling #4

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

Students will read a complex sentence and then break it down into bite-size chunks in order to practice rewording vocabulary in this reading fluency worksheet.

Movies Sentence Chunk

Students will read a story by Rudyard Kipling and answer comprehension questions that follow.

The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo Comprehension

How do events change characters in the story, or the story itself? Use this worksheet to review the concept of cause and effect.

Reading for Comprehension: More Cause and Effect

In this worksheet, children learn about the role art plays in the celebration and messaging of Earth Day, which begain in 1970 to heighten awarness of environmental crises around the world.

Understand Earth Day Art Messages

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Vocabulary in Context.

Vocabulary Cards: Vocabulary in Context

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: I Can Use Context Clues!

Glossary: I Can Use Context Clues!

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

Spellers will head into nature to write a few outdoor-themed words in this engaging practice worksheet.

Spelling Practice: The Great Outdoors

Build Vocabulary: Word Meaning and Spelling #8

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

Build Vocabulary: Word Meaning and Spelling #10

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: I Pledge Allegiance.

Vocabulary Cards: I Pledge Allegiance

Build Vocabulary: Word Meaning and Spelling #13

Use this exercise with your students to practice identifying seeing how words are connected. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice antonym relationships.

Working with Analogies 3

Build Vocabulary: Word Meaning and Spelling #7

Build Vocabulary: Word Meaning and Spelling #5

Enjoy "How the Whale Got His Throat" by Rudyard Kipling, and complete some reading comprehension activities, including a few coloring pages!

How the Whale Got His Throat

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