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Context Clues
Students develop vocabulary using pre -reading strategies. In this language arts instructional activity, students discuss the intended message from observing a picture. Additionally, students explore guessing the covered word within a text.
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Compound Words
First graders read newspaper articles and locate compound words. They break the words into two parts, then draw pictures of the two words.
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Language Arts: Word Recognition and Mental Images
Students read short stories containing Dolch sight words and describe the scenes and answer comprehension questions. After relating the stories to their own experiences or observations, they draw pictures illustrating a scene from the...
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Valentine's Day Picture Test
In this Valentine's Day vocabulary worksheet, learners view pictures and incomplete words and use the pictures as clues to fill in the blanks and complete the words. Students write 10 words.
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Sequence Clue Words
Young learners use sequence words to describe pictures they draw of events happening in a story. To practice sequencing events, they use words such as first, then, next, and more.
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Drawing Word Problems
In this steps to solving word problems worksheet, students read and follow directions to reread the problem, underline clues about operation to use, draw a picture, and write the solution. Students solve 4 problems.
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Guided Reading Organizer for Chain Reaction
The class uses Chain Reaction, a magazine, to build a better understanding of Latin and Greek roots found in scientific vocabulary. They use two attached worksheets to help them read a scientific article, using visual clues and their...
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Learning About Prediction
The skill of prediction as a reading strategy is explored. Learners are shown how to use clues within a story, along with pictures, to make predictions as to what's going to happen in the story. A clever in-class game which uses objects...
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New Vocabulary: The Ugly Duckling
The class hears the story of The Ugly Duckling to build vocabulary. They hear the story, then pull three to four vocabulary words from the text. The teacher then helps them use the context of each sentence to construct a meaning for each...
Beatrice Public Schools
Analogy Practice Worksheet
Clarify word relationships and practice working with synonyms and antonyms by administering an extensive worksheet. Class members determine the relationship between words and complete a series of analogies. Before assigning these...
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We Play Music
Do you like music? Have your youngsters read We Play Music, practicing select reading strategies, like using picture clues to determine new words. Then, after their first independent read, have them re-read the story to a...
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Falling Leaves Long Vowel Game
Autumn's come early in your classroom! Match leaves with short words to the trees with the correct vowel sounds. A few blank leaves allow you to add your own words to the activity.
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Hidden Picture: Back-to-School "Puzzle"
In this language arts worksheet, learners examine a detailed picture of a school and playground with 17 hidden pictures. Students locate the objects that are hidden by reading a story with highlighted words that give clues about what to...
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Phonics Skills: "igh" Sound
In this "igh" sound worksheet, students examine 2 picture clues and identify the "igh" words that represent them. Students also read a textual clue and identify the "igh" word that represents it and think of their own "igh" word and draw...
Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program
Focus: Spelling Common Words
If you’re going to get a tattoo, make sure your artist writes it right because it’s hard to correct their inkings. That’s the big idea in this short lesson on commonly misspelled words like their/there/they’re and it’s/its. Images...
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Opposite Words: Adjectives
Here's a colorful learning exercise that asks kids to write a word, opposite in meaning, to the word pictured. The template includes picture clues.
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Halloween Activities
In this online/interactive Halloween worksheet, students view and listen to the "Five Little Pumpkins" video to fill in the blanks to complete sentences, use picture clues to unscramble words about Halloween, match sentences and...
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What Do You See at the Pond?
With What Do You See at the Pond?, young readers explore pond life and practice reading strategies. Learners first make predictions and then read the simple story independently. After a second read-through with a partner, kids come...
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Choose the Operation
In this problem solving worksheet, learners solve 6 problems in which picture clues are analyzed and the correct operation and math sentence are selected from 2 choices.
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Solve the Crossword Puzzle
In this crossword puzzle worksheet, students say the name of 7 picture clues. Students complete the crossword puzzle that does not have a word bank.
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Adding in the Garden
In this adding with picture clues learning exercise, students write the missing number in each of 8 number sentences. All numbers will be below 5.
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Consonant Clusters
In this consonant clusters worksheet, students practice their language skills as they use the clusters "pl" or "pr" to fill in the blanks 12 words that are missing letters. Picture clues are provided.
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These Are, Those Are
In this word choice worksheet, learners read 6 incomplete sentences with picture clues. In each blank, students write either "these are" or "those are" to make the sentence correct. No rules or examples are provided.
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Winter Word Scramble Worksheet
In this winter words activity, students unscramble the winter words and look at the pictures for clues. Students complete 8 problems.