Unfamiliar words can make it difficult to understand what a piece of writing is trying to say. Practice using context clues to define words you don't know with a language arts worksheet, which features five sentences and enough space to...

Learning how to use context clues is helpful for both reading comprehension skills and to determine the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary words. As they read ten sentences with underlined words, learners choose the most...

Enhance elementary readers' vocabulary skills with a worksheet focused on context clues. Individuals read ten short sentences, each with an underlined word, and look over four options to find the most appropriate synonym that could...

Is a movie interesting or interested? Use context clues to decide which participle would be the most appropriate in each of ten sentences.

What's it like to be a comedian? Find out with a short cloze passage about the life of a comedian. Kids use eight words at the bottom of the page to fill in the blanks throughout the passage.

Mastering verb tense is an important part of building your learners' reading skills. Young grammarians look over ten sentences and use context clues to decide whether they should use the present or present progressive tense.

How can you tell when a story takes place? Use context clues to infer the time of day and seasons of five short reading passages. Kids then note each passage's time period as daytime or nighttime, as well as winter or summer.

Many learners struggle with the difference between count and non-count nouns. When do you use a few or a little? Or much or many? Take a look at ten sentences where young grammarians can...

He was running or he has been running? Young grammarians must examine context clues to determine which verb phrase to use in ten sentences. 

Clarify the meanings of ten sentences with a fill-in-the-blank worksheet. As young grammarians study the context clues in each sentence, they choose which preposition would best complete the thought.

After knowing the root word, can your learner identify various words that use the root word, depending on the sentences provided? Learners use context clues to complete the blanks for nine questions. 

Provide readers with an opportunity to practice drawing inferences by giving them this worksheet. Kids identify the text and author, record a sentence they believe infers rather than directly says, and then write the deeper meaning the...

Decide which form of the verb to use in ten sentences. Young grammarians watch for context clues when determining if they should use gerunds or infinitives in the blank spaces of each sentence.

Your kids have probably heard these idioms before, but do they know what they mean? Help them learn that haste makes waste, an ill wind blows no good, and that ignorance is bliss with a list of popular expressions.

Have your pupils try a hand at making inferences. The activity includes five different descriptions, and learners must infer where they think the passage is happening and provide some explanation. A straightforward resource for...

Jo's decision to sell her hair to bringing her wounded father home is a pivotal and poignant scene from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. Class members read the excerpt and answer four questions about the details, vocabulary, and plot...

Learners match the vocabulary terms that are found in the left column with the definitions on the right side of the page. Pupils must solve 15 matching problems. The solution to the activity is viewable online. This could be a good...

Practice reading context clues with a set of ten sentences within a grammar worksheet. As they examine each sentence, readers choose which preposition would be most appropriate after the adjective shown.

In this completing the "ph" words with missing letters worksheet, students read sentences with incomplete words, use the scrambled missing letters and context clues, and fill in the missing letters to complete the words and sentences....

See how famous books of literature have different perspectives with a short learning exercise. After reviewing the difference between first and third person points of view, learners look over six passages from various novels and...

Readers can check their knowledge of words with the roots vent, duct, and dict in this interactive online quiz. True/false responses allow quiz takers to agree or disagree with usage and definitions of words as presented in the context...

In this fraction worksheet, 4th graders solve for fractions reading word problems.  Students read and solve for 6 problems using the given information provided in each.

MyVocabulary.com features three levels of words for each root; this fill-in-the-blanks quiz contains a word bank of beginner vocabulary containing the roots cern/cer/cre, jur/jus, and leg. You can print it out, or your learners can take...

Ready-to-print phonics worksheet on the digraphs "ph" and "gh." Includes information on the digraphs, word lists, sentences using words in context, and opportunities for students to write spelling words and original sentences.