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If your students need support in matching obscure words with the deeper meaning, invite them to use the clues on this worksheet to match words and phrases with their corresponding meanings.

Match the Meaning

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

Multiple Meaning Words Worksheet

The meaning of Thanksgiving can sometimes get lost among the fun of food and family. Discuss the meaning of Thanksgiving with this fun activity.

The Meaning of Thanksgiving: Full of Thankful!

Use this multiple-meaning words worksheet to support middle school students as they explore a word with more than one meaning.&nbsp;

Vocabulary Toolkit: Multiple-Meaning Words Graphic Organizer

With this resource, your students will use the meaning of suffixes to determine the meaning of new words.

It’s Grammar Time: Suffixes

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

Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to determine the meaning of idioms.

Figurative Language: Idioms

Nouns can be used to determine the meaning of corresponding adjectives, especially when a suffix is involved!

Naming Nouns and Associating Adjectives

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

Double Meaning Words

Sometimes looking inside a word can help determine the meaning just like using context clues! In this lesson, students will learn to use roots and affixes as clues to the meaning of a word.

Tools for Tackling Words

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

See reading in a new light in this snowy fantasy story!

Determine the Theme: The Lost Light

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

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

This example-filled exercise will help students develop a fuller understanding of context from clues embedded in texts.


Determining Meaning Using Context Clues 2

Do your students need instruction in how to find and determine the meaning of figurative language? In this lesson, students will explore the exaggerations found in hyperbole and elements of idioms.

Explanations for Expressions

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

Can your students associate similar adjectives and nouns using the roots and suffixes? In this lesson, students will learn how to associate nouns with adjectives. Along the way, they will use the roots and affixes to determine the meaning.

Associating Adjectives

In this vocabulary-building worksheet, children will look at seven homographs, then write two sentences that reflect each of each word's meaning and part of speech.

Words With Double Meanings

In this lesson, students will improve their skills in using context clues to determine the meaning of difficult words. Use it as a stand-alone lesson or as support to the lesson Journey on the Underground Railroad.

Vocabulary in Context

To make a long story short, idioms are a fun addition to the English language! Use this lesson with your students to determine the meaning of common idioms— specifically those associated with Valentine's Day.

Valentine's Day Idioms

Children draw the literal meaning of a few idiomatic expressions as they consider their true social meaning.

Show Your Idioms

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

Look Around! Using Context Clues

This exercise is the difference between the proverbial "teaching your students to fish" and simply giving them the answers.

Reference Materials for Word Meaning 2

This Easter worksheet will help students practice understanding the meaning of puns.

Bad Hare Day Easter Puns

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding the meaning of Easter puns.

Eggsciting Easter Puns

Let's review suffixes! Students will identify the suffix in each sentence, then define the meaning.

Suffix Practice

Reading is about to come alive with onomatopoeia! In this lesson students will learn to differentiate between alliteration and onomatopoeia and practice determining how onomatopoeia is used by authors to convey rich meaning.

Sounds Familiar!

Discover the meaning and celebration of Kwanzaa with this research worksheet designed for fourth through eighth graders!

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