Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Read Strategically: Context Clues

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on using context clues to determine word meanings while reading including synonym, definition, example, contrast, experience, or adjacent clues. L.11-12.4d Verify meaning
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Context Clues

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces types of context clues.
Handout
Other

Literacy for the 21st Century: Six Types of Context Clues [Pdf]

For Students 7th Standards
This is a chart that explains the six types of context clues with descriptions and sample sentences. It includes definition, example/illustration, grammar, logic, contrast, and word roots and affixes.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Solving Word Meanings: Engaging Strategies for Vocabulary Dev.

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A 5-lesson unit where students learn to use context clues and semantic gradients together to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words.
Website
Other

Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Understand Precise Vocabulary

For Students 4th Standards
A short explanation of the importance of using precise word choice in writing and using context clues to help you understand the meaning of precise words when reading. Click on Model to for an example with explanation and then click on...
Lesson Plan
US National Archives

Docsteach: Celebrating America's Bicentennial in 1976

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will learn how the Declaration of Independence has been made available so that Americans can still read this important document. They will follow the steps that were involved in printing copies of the...
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Word Way [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
A lesson plan in which students identify unknown words within a text, identify their parts and syllables, and work to determine the meaning of each word. Materials are included.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 5 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 5 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
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English for Everyone

Englishfor Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 6 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 6 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 7 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 7 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 1: Level 11 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 11 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 12 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 12 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
Interactive
Phil Tulga

Phil Tulga: Inference Riddles: Inference Riddle Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this game, students are asked to infer what is being described. They click on "Press to Show a Clue" revealing a line of the riddle until they have an idea of what is being described; next, they type their guess into the "Make a...
Lesson Plan
Other

Wisewire: Grade 3 Playlist: Identifying Real Life Connections Between Words

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Often, without even realizing it, readers are connecting the words they read to their everyday lives. The human brain is moving so fast that even while reading, behind the scenes, readers are making connections to their real lives and to...
Article
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: 2nd Grade Grammar

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This article focuses on the skills 2nd graders begin to learn including increased vocabulary, context clues, spelling patterns, tone and rhythm, punctuation, and language development.

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