[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives students practice using context to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word. Included are practice activities and assessment pages.

In this lesson plan, 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.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson in which learners learn to use context clues in surrounding sentences to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by...

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

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

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to use a glossary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by Robin Johnson and Bobbie Kalman and...

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.

In this game, students read a clue and then click on the letters in the matrix in order to spell the answer to the clue.

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...

In this lesson, students will listen to stories and determine the meaning of the word by using sentence-level context clues. They will think about the verbs that are used and think about how that verb appeals to their senses, giving them...

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

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.

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...

This lesson explains how to identify connected words when determining the meaning of unknown vocabulary. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.