[Free Registration/Login Required] A activity in which students learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of a Beetle by Bobbie Kalman and Molly Aloian and includes...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to use information within appositives to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of a Beetle by Bobbie Kalman and Molly...

Learn how to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word in a Social Studies passage.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to use contrasting statements within a sentences to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson includes directions for direct teaching, guided practice, and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses context clues and how students can use them to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.

A short example of using context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar content words. Click on Practice to practice using context clues.

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

You will learn how to use context (e.g., cause and effect or compare and contrast organizational text structures) to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar or multiple-meaning words.