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How to Study: Building Vocabulary: Using Context Clues to Learn Word Meaning

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Use Context Clues

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
See models of different types of context clues, and practice finding meanings of words in context.
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Savvas Learning

Pearson Education: The Longman Vocabulary Website: Using Context Clues

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Use Context Clues to Decipher Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This reading resource discusses the strategy of using context clues to decipher new words. A list of guiding questions is provided to help students as they use context clues to understand new words.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Definition Context Clues

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the concept of using context clues to comprehend unfamiliar words or phrases in a given text. Types of context clues and their definitions are also included.
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Vocabulary Acquisition: Use Context Clues

For Students 5th Standards
This learning module focuses on using context clues to understand unknown words including definitions, examples, restatements, cause and effect/relationships, and comparisons. It provides examples with explanations and a practice...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Interpreting Vocabulary in Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson explains how to interpret vocabulary by using context. L.9-10.4a Context/Meaning, L.11-12.4a Words/Context
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Critical Reading: Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan 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.
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Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[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...
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Tom Richey

Slide Share: Understanding Context Clues

For Students 6th Standards
A slide show with forty-two slides with explanations and examples on how to use context clued to determine the meanings of unknown words.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 7 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 7 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
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Road to Grammar

Road to Grammar: Describing Weather

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Lean twenty-two words to use when describing the weather by reading short passages and using context clues to define weather related vocabulary words.