Reading comprehension improves when you can use context clues to define unfamiliar words. Help your kids practice using context clues with a worksheet that provides space for seven sentences with new words, as well as a place for kids to estimate the definition.

Concepts

guided reading, context clues, Vocabulary

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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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

Common Core

L.5.1.a L.6.1.a L.7.1.a