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With this organizer, students will be able to find unfamiliar vocabulary as they read and use context clues to determine meaning.

Keeping Up with Context Clues

What's the science behind those out-of-sight roots? Find out if you can trick roots into growing in different directions.

Gravitropism

Use this resource to assess your students’ ability to determine word meanings from context clues.

Context Clues: Finding Word Meanings

This lesson will help students explore using a dictionary to figure out tricky words with suffixes. Use as a stand-alone activity or a support for the Understanding Academic Vocabulary in a Nonfiction Text lesson.

Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words

Working on figurative language skills? Assess student understanding of simple hyperboles with this writing exercise. Your kids will be hyperbole hotshots when they've finished this worksheet!

Hyperbole Meaning

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.

Context Clue Matching

Is that fact important, or is it just interesting? Use this lesson to help your students determine importance in nonfiction text. 

Determining Importance

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 1

Use this resource to practice identifying words with suffixes and determining the meaning of the word.

Search for the Suffixes

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.

Word Meaning 1

Multiple Meaning Words: Matching

Vocabulary development helps second graders advance their reading and writing skills. This guided lesson uses exercises and techniques targeted to building vocabulary. Kids will be tasked with using descriptive adjectives, distinguishing between similar verbs and adjectives, and using context clues to determine the meaning of a word phrase. For more vocabulary boosters, check out the worksheets that align with this lesson.

Vocabulary 1

Children figure out the meaning of new words using context clues to find the missing family.

Lost Parents: Context Clues

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

Vocabulary Practice: Armando’s Goal

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

Show Your Idioms

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 3

Students will define eight pairs of homographs, then select two additional homograph pairs of and use them in a sentence.

Double Meaning: Practicing Homographs

This mid-year assessment will assess your students&rsquo; ability to determine word meanings from context clues.

Context Clues Check-In

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

Vocabulary Practice:  A Whale of a Problem

In this worksheet, children grow roots, branches, and leaves as they practice deep relaxation — then design a relaxation technique of their own.

Mindfulness: Deep Relaxation

There are many ways to figure out the meanings of unknown words. Through this worksheet, students record unknown words and find out their meaning using a variety of strategies.

Read the Word Clues

Do your students know that sentences can be stretched out using prepositional phrases? When this happens, sentences have a greater depth of meaning!

Sentence Stretching

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.

Learn Vocabulary Words with Multiple Meanings

This worksheet will help strengthen your students' word definition skills.

Multiple Meaning Words: Definition Search

After students complete this simple exercise they will better understand how to put compound words together.


Meaning of Compound Words 2

Develop students’ skill at applying prefixes and suffixes with this exercise that demonstrates how compound words are formed.


Meaning of Compound Words 1

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.

Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

Understanding prefixes is crucial for learning the meaning of unfamiliar words and building vocabulary.  Use this resource to study the prefix pre-.

Prefix Study: Pre

Kids will figure out the definitions of these sensory words by using context clues to infer the meaning.

Sensory Words Quiz

Talk about your day by telling time in this engaging second-grade worksheet!

My Day: Tell Time and Determine A.M. or P.M.

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