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Context Clues and Idioms
Kids practice using five types of context clues (definition, synonym, antonym, example, and general) to decode idiomatic language.
Murrieta Valley Unified School District
Review and Assess: “The Inn of Lost Time”
Check out a resource made up of two separate exercises. The first page lists a series of higher-level questions about "The Inn of Lost Time" by Lensey Namoika. Use the questions to encourage discussion or as an assessment. Since they...
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Finish the Sentences
In this recognizing sentence meaning and grammar worksheet, students read beginnings of sentences and write the endings. Students write 20 answers.
Illustrative Mathematics
Christina's Candies
Help Christina figure out how many chocolate and lemon candies she has with a lesson on decomposing numbers. When presenting this context to the class, the teacher chooses the total number of candies and the number that are chocolate,...
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Context Clues, Plot Structure, Conflict, and Personal Narrative Essay
What are the elements of a personal narrative? Get your class talking by reading "The Necklace" and "A Dangerous Game." The lesson focuses primarily on defining certain vocabulary terms (like context clues, plot, conflict, climax, etc.)...
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Reading Comprehension: Voice of Nature
Understanding a text can be a very interesting task. Fourth graders read a passage describing the origin of an Aboriginal myth. They answer 11 comprehension questions that require them to pull key details, use context, and think...
EngageNY
Continued Close Reading of Bullfrog at Magnolia Circle: Text-Dependent Questions and Vivid Words and Phrases
In the third activity from this unit based on the book Bullfrog at Magnolia Circle, learners focus on using specific details from the text-to-answer questions about the habitat of bullfrogs. While reading the text, young scholars are...
Orange County Public Schools
Vocabulary #25 Worksheet – English 1
Practice ten vocabulary words with a series of critical thinking activities. After reviewing each word in context and matching them to their definitions, kids complete analogies and find antonyms to complete the assignment.
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Context Clues
Learners review and discuss what context clues are and then read six sentences and paragraphs and circle the correct context clue for each one.
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Complete the Sentence 6
In this vocabulary usage worksheet, students read the words in the word bank and the incomplete sentences, use context clues, and complete the sentences with the correct vocabulary words. Students fill in 10 blanks.
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Vocabulary in Sentences
In this completing the sentences worksheet, students use the words in the word pool and context clues to fill in the blank spaces. Students write 10 answers.
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Reading Comprehension: Context Clues
Fifth graders use context clues to help them understand unknown words. In this context clues instructional activity, 5th graders practice identifying context clues on a worksheet, then work with a peer to write their own story. Stories...
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Using Context Clues
Middle schoolers receive a handout that lists the five types of context clues. The class divides up into groups of three or four, and each group chooses five unfamiliar words. They write a multiple-choice question for each of their five...
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Context Vocabulary: Home-School Links
Learners read two sentences and determine meaning based on context. Students then answer two questions that help them understand how context can help with understanding new words. This worksheet is designed to be signed by student and...
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Sentence Styles: Lesson Ten
For a basic overview of phrases (prepositional, absolute, appositive, and participial), use this presentation in your grammar unit. Each slide contains a short explanation and an example, concluding with a slide about relative clauses....
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Word Meanings From Context Volume 5, Number 32
Learners determine the meanings of seven words from context clues in sentences. They then use the words in a crossword puzzle that uses synonyms for clues.
Teach-nology
The Bike Riding Moose
What would you think if you saw a moose in a tree? Read about an impressive moose and practice using context clues with a cloze passage, which includes a word bank at the bottom of the pages for kids to reference.
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Word Roots PLIC, FAC, and COGN Advanced True/False Quiz
A nice twist on the usual vocabulary quiz, this test provides pupils with each of the 12 words in the context of a sentence. This variation allows test takers to use context as well as their word knowledge to determine if vocabulary...
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Word Roots CERN, JUR, and LEG Advanced True/False Quiz
An above-average vocabulary test: given a vocabulary word in the context of a sentence, pupils must decide, using their knowledge of the word's meaning along with context clues, if the word is used correctly or not. This worksheet...
K12 Reader
Using Antonyms for Context Clues
Readers use the antonyms provided within a sentence to help them determine the meaning of underlined words in the sentence. The worksheet is the final resource in a series that provides opportunities to kids to demonstrate their...
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Missing Words in Sentences
In this filling in the missing words in sentence worksheet, students use words in a Word Bank, context clues, and shape boxes of the letters in the words to determine the missing words. Students write 10 answers.
Lawrence Virtual School
Context Clues
Considering a lesson on using context clues to figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words? This packet includes a brief reading passage about strategies readers can use and 12 very different graphic organizers, including a template for a...
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Academic Raceway 500: Vocabulary Using Context Clues
This vocabulary skills PowerPoint presents a game to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words using context clues within a sentence. The game is based on the theme of a car race. The goal of the PowerPoint game is to finish the race...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Language Analysis Based on Stave 1
Class members meet the original scrooge, the Dickens character whose name has become synonymous with a cold-hearted, tight-fisted, miser. Using the provided worksheet, readers closely examine context clues to determine the meanings of...