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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

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

Look Around! Using Context Clues

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

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

Metaphors in Context

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

Glossary: Multiple-Meaning Words

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Multiple-Meaning Words.

Vocabulary Cards: Multiple-Meaning Words

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

Vocabulary Practice: Armando’s Goal

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

Vocabulary Practice:  A Whale of a Problem

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: determining importance. Support your young learners as they read, judge, justify, and defend their understanding of a text.

Reading Strategies: Determining Importance

Help young readers make inferences using context clues with this worksheet.

Practice Making Inferences

Early readers practice using context clues to order a simple story in this appealing worksheet.

Order the Story: Kim and Tim

Help your active readers identify key vocabulary and important details with the help of two graphic organizers!

Searching for Context Clues & Key Details

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

Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

Determining a Character's Motivation

Students will use content-specific vocabulary in context as they learn about the Revolutionary War.

Revolutionary War: Vocabulary Review & Timeline

Children read six short passages and draw a conclusion about each one based on context clues.

Reading for Comprehension: Drawing Conclusions

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

Glossary: Using the 5 W's

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

Monster Hoax

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

Vocabulary Cards: Using the 5 W's

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

Coding Nonfiction Text: The History of Crayons

Practice analyzing figurative language in context with this excerpt from C.S. Lewis&rsquo;s classic fantasy novel, <em>The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe</em>!

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Figurative Language in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Making inferences using visual clues takes practice! Use this worksheet to help analyze visual elements.

Part 2: Using Visual Clues to Make Inferences

Use this resource to teach your students to identify cause and effect relationships in context by looking at the signal words.

Identifying Cause and Effect with Signal Words

Your students will use their imaginations and context clues to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

Adding Up Inferences

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Glossary: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose

Similes are all around us—sometimes you just need a little context to know how to decipher them! This lighthearted story about a twisted ankle contains two hidden similes. Can your students find them?

The Twisted Ankle

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Vocabulary Cards: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose

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!

Get students thinking figuratively by having them connect their understanding of metaphors and similes to the books they read in class. Students will seek out a metaphor or simile in their reading, consider the quote's context, then explain what they thin

Metaphor and Simile Search

Analyze the impact an author&rsquo;s words can have on the meaning and tone of a text with this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott&rsquo;s classic novel <em>Little Women</em>.

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Word Choice in Little Women

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