Scholars learn about the Hero's Journey as they read Ray Bradbury's "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh." They analyze the story's structure and narrative techniques. Finally, they write summaries of the text's central idea and use their...

This resource explains six ways authors use context clues that might help readers understand unfamiliar words. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.4, 8.2.B

Discover how to use context clues to improve your reading skills. This resource features exercises for beginners, intermediate and advanced students. L.9-10.4a, L.8.2.B Context/Meaning

This screen is the first of a series of slides about using context clues. It defines context clues. The following screens contain examples and tips on how to use and interpret context clues. Use the Next buttons to complete the...

In this lesson, 5th graders will use context clues as they learn new science vocabulary words through listening, reading and discussing the new content. The terms are associated with the reshaping of the earth's surface.

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word in each sentence in this ten-question multiple choice test.

This downloadable slideshow focuses on context clues including definitions, the four types, and examples.

A slide show with sixteen slides explaining and giving examples of four different types of context clues: synonyms, antonyms, explanation, and example.

A six-part learning module with links to texts and images for a context clues lesson involving four learning stations.

This article explains in general how to build vocabulary using reading strategies such as context clues.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to use visual, meaning, and structure clues separately and together to determine the meaning of unknown words. Lessons are...

This lesson explains how to examine nearby words when determining the meaning of vocabulary words. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content. L.11-12.4 Word Meanings, L.11-12.4a Words/Context

This lesson focuses on increasing your vocabulary including using context clues, dictionaries, and your working vocabulary. It also offers two videos with strategies for enhancing your vocabulary.

Explanations and examples of inferences and conclusions in reading and in understanding context clues to define unknown vocabulary.

This interactive assessment features 6 multiple-choice over terms having to do with making inferences and their definitions. These terms include the following: inference, context clue, judgment, implied, prior knowledge, and apparent...

In this interactive game, students match terms having to do with making inferences to their definitions. These terms include the following: inference, context clue, judgment, implied, prior knowledge, and apparent traits.

This set of interactive flashcards focuses on terms having to do with making inferences and their definitions. These terms include the following: inference, context clue, judgment, implied, prior knowledge, and apparent traits.

This lesson explains how to determine the denotation of words; it defines denotation and offers a plan of action: look up the word in the dictionary, read all meanings paying attention to parts of speech, and compare each of these...

During this lesson, students will review nouns and identify common and proper nouns in context. A short story will be written using both types of nouns. An interactive Internet site will be used to reinforce the lesson.

A learning module asking students to analyze fiction, examine symbolism and cultural context, read a section of The Kite Runner, practice context clues and Greek and Latin roots, and practice sentence variety with compound and complex...

A module where students will determine the meaning of unfamiliar terms using prior knowledge, context clues and examination of word parts.

Lean twenty-two words to use when describing the weather by reading short passages and using context clues to define weather related vocabulary words.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad to learn to identify and understand the use of simile and metaphor in...