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Reading comprehension improves when you can use context clues to define unfamiliar words. Help your kids practice using context clues with a instructional activity that provides space for seven sentences with new words, as well as a place for kids to estimate the definition.
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Instructional Ideas
- Have kids complete in a book report or independent reading project
- Use as a regular vocabulary activity as you read through complex texts
- Prompt kids to check their definitions against a dictionary or peers' definitions
- Assign the worksheet after reading a short story, chapter from a novel, or section of informational text, and use the words that kids discover as the week's vocabulary list
Classroom Considerations
- Does not provide much space for each sentence and explanation; the worksheet may be best effective when projected in front of the class and copied into notebooks
Pros
- Blank worksheet is versatile for any text
- Allows kids to find their own words to define, automatically differentiating the activity for each reading level
Cons
- None