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Students will be able to understand words without a dictionary after they work through this exercise teaching how to determine the meaning of words using roots, prefixes, and suffixes.


Determine Meaning Using Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

Students will learn how knowledge of word parts can help readers determine the meaning of words. This interactive lesson will have students reviewing and putting into practice some of the most common prefixes. 

Practice Using Prefixes to Determine Word Meaning

Give your readers the tools to decipher the meaning of Greek and Latin based words. In this lesson they review the meaning of commonly used prefixes, suffixes and roots and then practice constructing and deciphering words.

Using Word Parts to Determine the Meaning of Words

Kids use context to figure out the meaning of words.

Using Context: Multiple Meaning Words

Are you careful, caring, or careless? A suffix is a word part that changes the meaning of a word. Use this lesson with your students to teach them how to determine word meaning based on their understanding of the meaning of common suffixes.

Word Meaning with Common Suffixes

In this worksheet, learners will practice using context clues to find the meaning of eight compound words.

Compound Word Meaning

Your students will practice using sentence clues to identify the meaning of homographs.

Multiple Meaning Words: Multiple Choice

Help your students practice using root words, prefixes, and suffixes to change words and to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Practice Using Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words.

Glossary: Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words

Why walk when you can mosey? In this lesson, students will learn how to use synonyms to express shades of meaning in their writing. Introduce the topic with a book, then brainstorm descriptive options for overused words.

Synonyms: Using Shades of Meaning

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words.

Vocabulary Cards: Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words.

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.

Match the Meaning

Learn more about the small differences in meaning between similar words with this engaging worksheet!

Shades of Meaning: Matching

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

Glossary: Multiple-Meaning Words

Practice ranking words by intensity in this shades of meaning worksheet!

Shades of Meaning: Word Ladders

This multiple meaning words worksheet uses context clues to help kids make sense of homonyms, or words with multiple meanings.

Multiple Meaning Words Worksheet

Happy, thrilled, delighted! In this shades of meaning game, kids identify common synonyms that are grouped together.

Texting: Shades of Meaning

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

Figurative Language: Idioms

Explore shades of meaning in related words with this third-grade grammar worksheet!

Shades of Meaning: Which Word?

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

Finding Word Meaning: Context Clues & Text Features #2

Finding Word Meaning: Context Clues & Text Features #1

Use this multiple-meaning words worksheet to support middle school students as they explore a word with more than one meaning.&nbsp;

Vocabulary Toolkit: Multiple-Meaning Words Graphic Organizer

This lesson will help students understand multiple-meaning words through the use of artistic and theatrical representation! Use as a stand-alone activity or a support lesson for Let's Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Texts!

Multiple-Meaning Words

Take your shades of meaning skills from <em>good</em> to <em>great</em> with this informative worksheet!

Shades of Meaning: Word Strength

Your students will practice using context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words while reading this classic Aesop fable.

The Tortoise and the Hare: Vocabulary

The use of pronouns can make simple sentences more fluid and natural, but incorrect usage can change the meaning all together. Avoid this complication by having your student complete these exercises to solidify concepts.

Pronouns to Clarify Meaning

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

Root Out the Meaning of Words

Sometimes looking inside a word can help determine the meaning just like using context clues! In this lesson, students will learn to use roots and affixes as clues to the meaning of a word.

Tools for Tackling Words

Children will draw from a word bank to form five new compound words, then write and illustrate their meaning.

Compound Words: Match, Meaning, and Draw

This third grade reading worksheet offers practice using context clues to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word in a sentence.

Context Clues: Word Sleuth

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