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Learners will use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of common allusions.

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Determine the Meaning of Common Allusions

Learners use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of more common allusions.

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Determine the Meaning of Common Allusions #2

If your students need support in matching obscure words with the deeper meaning, invite them to use the clues on this worksheet to match words and phrases with their corresponding meanings.

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Match the Meaning

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Multiple-Meaning Words.

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Glossary: Multiple-Meaning Words

Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to determine the meaning of idioms.

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Figurative Language: Idioms

Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

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Finding Word Meaning: Context Clues & Text Features #2

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Finding Word Meaning: Context Clues & Text Features #1

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Multiple-Meaning Words.

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Vocabulary Cards: Multiple-Meaning Words

Do your students understand the deeper meaning or humor behind a play on words? In this lesson, students will learn how to interpret the meaning of oxymorons and puns, identify key words, and explain the meanings!

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Deeper Meanings

Students will use context clues as they select the meaning of words.

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Look Around! Using Context Clues

Words are the wondrous building blocks in language. This unit increases students’ word knowledge by introducing more challenging vocabulary and exploring how words are related. Learners will also discover some of the ways words are constructed using derivational root words, prefixes, suffixes, and compound words. Students will get to explore and create fun literary devices such as similes, idioms and metaphors.

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Word Meaning 2

When children encounter new words, they don't need to make a beeline for the dictionary. Train them to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.

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Context Clue Matching

Your students will infer the meaning of unknown figurative language examples by using context clues.

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Making Sense of Figurative Language 1

This year, third graders will be taking their vocabulary to new heights and exploring such concepts as metaphor, simile, hyperbole, and personification. This guided lesson in vocabulary and figurative language offers clear and practical definitions of new words and expressions, along with plenty of practice opportunities. Understanding vocabulary and figurative language deepens reading comprehension skills and enriches the writing process.

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Word Meaning 1

This worksheet features writing prompts to help your kid think analytically about the story of Bridge to Terabithia and get the most out of the book and movie.

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The Meaning of Terabithia

Use this reading comprehension exercise with your students to practice determining word meaning.

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Vocabulary Practice: Armando’s Goal

Children draw the literal meaning of a few idiomatic expressions as they consider their true social meaning.

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Show Your Idioms

This exercise will get your students inferring the meaning of unknown metaphors.

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Making Sense of Figurative Language 3

Use this reading comprehension passage with your students to practice determining the meaning of unfamiliar words.

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Vocabulary Practice:  A Whale of a Problem

Find some words from My Vacation (Part Three) that have more than one meaning. Look at the way the word is used to figure out what it means.

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Learn Vocabulary Words with Multiple Meanings

Give your class a deeper understanding of theme with this art and poetry-focused lesson plan about theme. By the end of the lesson, students will understand what theme is and how to determine theme in a piece of writing, such as a poem.

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Determining the Theme of a Poem

Use this lesson to reinforce using sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text. This can be used as a stand alone activity or a support the Using Context Clues to Understand Word Meanings lesson.

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Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

Use this lesson to help your ELs summarize information from a text and use context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. This lesson can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support to the Day 4 section of the Star Unit lesson.

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Summarizing Nonfiction

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

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Vocabulary Think & Seek

This Easter worksheet will help students practice understanding the meaning of puns.

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Bad Hare Day Easter Puns

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding the meaning of Easter puns.

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Eggsciting Easter Puns

This lesson will help your students use sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text. Students will enjoy learning about maps and figuring out tricky words along the way!

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Using Context Clues to Understand Word Meanings

Challenge your students to find the definitions of each homograph that give these puns their double meaning.

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Puns with Homographs

This worksheet guides second graders in previewing a text using the title, table of contents, and graphics.

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Previewing Using Text Features

This resource makes matching idioms as easy as pie! ​Students will pair idioms based on their identical meaning.

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