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A big part of learning is learning how to consult reference materials, which this exercise demystifies.


Reference Materials for Word Meaning 1

In this worksheet, learners will practice using context clues to find the meaning of eight compound words.

Compound Word Meaning

Explore shades of meaning in related words with this third-grade grammar worksheet!

Shades of Meaning: Which Word?

Children will draw from a word bank to form five new compound words, then write and illustrate their meaning.

Compound Words: Match, Meaning, and Draw

Kids use context to figure out the meaning of words.

Using Context: Multiple Meaning Words

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

Multiple Meaning Words Worksheet

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Multiple-Meaning Words.

Glossary: Multiple-Meaning Words

This lesson will help students understand multiple-meaning words through the use of artistic and theatrical representation! Use as a stand-alone activity or a support lesson for Let's Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Texts!

Multiple-Meaning Words

Happy, thrilled, delighted! In this shades of meaning game, kids identify common synonyms that are grouped together.

Texting: Shades of Meaning

Your students will practice using sentence clues to identify the meaning of homographs.

Multiple Meaning Words: Multiple Choice

Use this resource to assess your students’ knowledge and understanding of prefixes and suffixes and how they affect word meaning.

Word Structure Learning Check

Early readers can use picture clues to help figure out new or unknown words. In this reading fluency worksheet, students learn how examining pictures for context clues can help them decode text.

Word Meaning: Picture Clues

This third grade reading worksheet offers practice using context clues to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word in a sentence.

Context Clues: Word Sleuth

The use of pronouns can make simple sentences more fluid and natural, but incorrect usage can change the meaning all together. Avoid this complication by having your student complete these exercises to solidify concepts.

Pronouns to Clarify Meaning

This grammar worksheet combines vocabulary practice and creativity as students illustrate words to highlight their shades of meaning.

Draw the Shades of Meaning With Pictures #1

Draw the Shades of Meaning With Pictures #2

Your scholars will break down their vocabulary words with inflected endings into the base form in order to successfully locate a dictionary entry.

Reference the Dictionary

Use this resource to assess your students’ ability to determine word meanings from context clues.

Context Clues: Finding Word Meanings

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words.

Glossary: Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words

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

Double Meaning Words

This worksheet will help strengthen your students' word definition skills.

Multiple Meaning Words: Definition Search

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words.

Vocabulary Cards: Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words.

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

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

There are many ways to figure out the meanings of unknown words. Through this worksheet, students record unknown words and find out their meaning using a variety of strategies.

Read the Word Clues

Use this worksheet to practice determining the meaning of the new word formed when a prefix is added to a base word.

Perfect Prefixes Practice

Use this resource to practice identifying words with suffixes and determining the meaning of the word.

Search for the Suffixes

Practice the root word TELE with this word play worksheet, perfect for strengthening vocabulary skills.

Root Word Ladder: Tele

Zip and dip in time to the "ip" word family. Use this word slider for rhyming and reading, along with the other word family sliders.

"ip" Word Family

Word games are not only fun but a great way to put those spelling skills to the test! Have your little writer complete this word ladder.

Word Ladder

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