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Webbing Context Clues

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore strategies for identifying the meaning of unfamiliar words. In this vocabulary lesson, 5th graders apply a think aloud strategy for unfamiliar words. Students use context clues to identify unfamiliar words and write...
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Helping Words

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this context clues learning exercise, students identify each picture and write the word that identifies the picture using context clues. Students complete 5 examples.
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Usage of words "Care", "Matter", and "Mind"

For Students 4th - 6th
In this correct usage worksheet, students use context clues to select the correct word for each sentence, either "care", "matter" or "mind", to give the proper meaning.
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Test Your Reading Skills: How to Make a Chocolate Cake

For Students 5th - 12th
In this reading worksheet, students will read directions about how to make a chocolate cake. A word is missing from each sentence and students will need to use context clues to determine the missing word.
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As

For Students 7th - 9th
In this context clues worksheet, students decide how the various meanings of the word As are used in ten sentences. Students check their answers when completed.
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Confusing Words

For Students 5th - 6th
In this confusing words worksheet, students complete 30 sentences with the words that are given, using context clues to determine the meaning.
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Vocabulary In Conversation

For Students 7th - 8th
In this vocabulary in conversation worksheet, students use context clues to fill in the blanks of a dialog online, then check the answers.
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Vocabulary in Conversation

For Students 6th - 7th
For this vocabulary in conversation worksheet, students enter the word in the dialog based on context clues, with answers available.
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Using Prepositions with "Get" Using Prepositions With "Get"

For Students 4th - 5th
In this prepositions with "get" activity, students enter the preposition that correctly follows the word "get" using context clues with answers available.
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Visualizing A Setting

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use context clues from the text of the story Rainy Day to determine the setting. In this setting lesson plan, 3rd graders determine the time and place by visualizing.
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Lesson 1: Determine the Meaning of Unknown Words

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use context clues to find the meaning of new vocabulary. In this vocabulary lesson, 6th graders read A Wrinkle in Time written by Madeleine L’Engle and use post its to flag words they don't know. They figure out the meaning...
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Determine the Meaning of Unknown Words

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders explore the meanings of unknown words in science fiction. In this language arts instructional activity, 6th graders participate in a game of Balderdash and guess the meanings of given words. Students discuss how to use...
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Story Building: Nasreddin and the Beggar

For Students 5th - 6th
In this story building worksheet, students build a story by choosing one of three sentences, using context clues to put the events of the story in order.
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Nasreddin's Visitors: Recreating a Story

For Students 4th - 6th
In this story recreation worksheet, students choose the correct sentence from 3 given to tell the story, using context clues to put the sentences in the proper sequence.
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Job and Work: Correct Usage

For Students 4th - 6th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students review the meanings of the words "job" and "work", then fill in the blanks using context clues to determine the meaning.
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Baseball Vocabulary Game: ESL Beginners

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The most valuable part of this lesson is the instructions to "Vocabulary Baseball," which can be applied to any vocabulary or key terms list. The game uses word boxes and the autobiography of Roberto Clemente, which the lesson describes...
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MyVocabulary.com: Word Roots SPECT, STA, and VERT Intermediate True/False Quiz

For Students 7th - 10th
Pupils are provided with 12 sentences using vocabulary terms containing the word roots SPECT, STA, and VERT and they must use their knowledge of word roots as well as the context of the sentence to determine if the terms are used...
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Hey Classmates! Let's Get to Know One Another!

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Two word puzzles encourage collaboration among learners. One sheet has numbers and initials that show a relationship and the other has pictorial images that represent a phrase. Partners cooperate in order to develop functional working...
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Beowulf: Songs of Ancient Heroes

For Teachers 12th
Introduce your class to epic heroes with these activities for Beowulf. After watching a video clip, taking notes on heroes, and tracking characteristics of heroism throughout Beowulf, class members retell an episode of Beowulf using a...
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Making Connections

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate visual imagery to aid reading comprehension. In this reading strategies instructional activity, 4th graders discover how visual imagery helps in comprehending a story. Students use a reader's notebook to record...
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Identify the Homographs

For Students 6th - 8th
To conduct an orchestra, a conductor’s conduct must be above reproach. What fun! Light a match under your readers by having them read a series of definitions and find the homograph that matches. If students don’t contest, you could...
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Mixed Verb Tenses

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
He was running or he has been running? Young grammarians must examine context clues to determine which verb phrase to use in ten sentences. 
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Simple Present or Present Continuous?

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
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.
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Fewer or Less?

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
When do you use fewer, and when do you use less? Learn the difference between the two words with a fill-in-the-blank worksheet that asks readers to make their choice based on the context clues in the ten sentences.

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