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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

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

Glossary: Multiple-Meaning Words

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

Use this reading comprehension exercise with your students to practice determining word meaning.

Vocabulary Practice: Armando’s Goal

Find presidential and historical words in this election-themed word search.

Presidential Word Search

When children encounter new words, they don't need to make a beeline for the dictionary. Train them to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.

Context Clue Matching

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

Look Around! Using Context Clues

Teach your class to develop strong inferencing skills by focusing on clues and hard evidence. In this lesson, students will play a game of “What’s for Breakfast?” to help them link context clues with word meaning.

What's For Breakfast?

This lesson will help your students use sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text. Students will enjoy learning about maps and figuring out tricky words along the way!

Using Context Clues to Understand Word Meanings

Build your students' emotional literacy with this handy emotion word bank! This resource provides students with visuals and a variety of emotion synonyms to increase their understanding of character traits in fictional text.

Word Bank: Emotion Charades

Every great reader and writer knows that syntax matters. During this lesson, students will use the close reading strategy to focus on word choice, and use their understanding of syntax to develop theories about patterns in the text.

Close Reading Through Word Choice

Use this reading comprehension passage with your students to practice determining the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Vocabulary Practice:  A Whale of a Problem

Kids will learn more about the meaning of a monster hoax and read about some of the most famous hoaxes.

Monster Hoax

In this lesson, your students will practice their reading comprehension and vocabulary with the Pledge of Allegiance. They will reflect on the meaning of the pledge.

All About the Pledge of Allegiance

This worksheet will have your students use codes to help them understand the meaning of the story.

Coding Nonfiction Text: The History of Crayons

When reading nonfiction books, it’s important to understand the meaning of related vocabulary words. In this activity, students identify sentences that include key vocabulary. When they're done they'll hold the key to reading success!

Vocabulary is the Key!

Give students many opportunities to see how visuals can influence a story's meaning. Show off your acting skills and read a great book to help them learn!

Analyzing Visual Elements

Fluent readers are able to derive meaning from the text and make connections! Have your students read independently, and then check for comprehension by having them share how it connects to other books they've read.

Reading Report: Text-to-Text Connections

Fluent readers know how to tackle tricky words. Help young readers build their reading muscles by practicing identifying and decoding challenging words with this worksheet.

Tricky Word Detective

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

Increase student comprehension by teaching your students strategies to figure out the meaning of unknown words. This lesson can be used as a stand alone activity or a support lesson for the Be a Nonfiction Detective lesson.

Unknown Words

Reading is so much more than just following words on a page—it's about deriving meaning from the text! Have your students read independently, and then check for comprehension by having them draw and write about their favorite parts.

Reading Report: My Favorite Part

Use this lesson to reinforce using sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text. This can be used as a stand alone activity or a support the Using Context Clues to Understand Word Meanings lesson.

Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

Reading fluency is so much more than just following words on a page—it's about finding meaning and making connections! Have your students read independently, and then check for comprehension by having them share about how it connects to their own lives.

Reading Report: Text-to-Self Connections

Help your beginning reader learn about phonetic spellings that show how to  pronounce a word. In this activity, she'll match each word with its pronunciation.

English Pronunciation

Use this lesson to help your ELs summarize information from a text and use context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. This lesson can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support to the Day 4 section of the Star Unit lesson.

Summarizing Nonfiction

Graphic novels, animated stories, and storytelling videos pop with enhanced  meaning, tone and beauty. Use this lesson plan with a mentor text to teach your students to note how such features contribute to the reader’s experience. 

Multimedia Elements of Fiction: Beginning to End

From labeled pictures to glossaries, there are lots of different nonfiction text features for students to learn about. In this lesson, students hunt for text features while learning how they provide meaning and present information. 

Text Feature Detective

Students will use an adjective word bank to help them identify statements of fact and opinion.

Fact & Opinion Adjectives

You only get something out of it if you put something in! Have your child try five-part challenge, with the final goal being memorizing a poem word for word.

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