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5th and 6th Grade Common Core Context Clues Worksheets : Page 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

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

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

In this worksheet, students will use context clues to help make sense of unfamiliar words.

I Can Use Context Clues!

Flex your child's vocabulary skills with this worksheet, which has your child helping a mixed up restaurant reviewer rearrange words.

Vocabulary Practice Sheet

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 #3

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Liberty is precious to humans and to horses. Your young student can read about Beauty's longing for liberty in this worksheet for "Black Beauty."

Black Beauty Reading Comprehension

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

What is Ramadan?

Build Vocabulary: Word Meaning and Spelling #2

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Build Vocabulary: Word Meaning and Spelling #10

Help your children increase their cat vocabulary and practice their spelling with this printable worksheet.

Cat Vocabulary

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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

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

Vocabulary Cards: I Can Use Context Clues!

Build Vocabulary: Word Meaning and Spelling #5

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

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

Glossary: I Can Use Context Clues!

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Help your students get to know a common root word with this great graphic organizer.

Word Part of the Week: spir

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