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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

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

Vocabulary Practice: Armando’s Goal

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

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.

Learn Vocabulary Words with Multiple Meanings

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.

Vocabulary Think & Seek

This worksheet will have your students use codes to help them understand the meaning of the story.

Coding Nonfiction Text: The History of Crayons

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Glossary: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

Your students will love reading this classic fable as they seek to determine the author’s purpose and differentiate fiction from nonfiction.

Author’s Purpose: The Ant and the Grasshopper

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Vocabulary Cards: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Glossary: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 1

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Vocabulary Cards: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose

This short fictional text can be used to help students determine words and phrases the author uses to help the reader figure out the central message of the story.

Emily's Turtle

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: determining importance. Support your young learners as they read, judge, justify, and defend their understanding of a text.

Reading Strategies: Determining Importance

In this historical heroes worksheet, second and third graders read a short passage about Owens' life and legacy, then answer the comprehension questions to help determine their understanding.

Historical Heroes: Jesse Owens

Use this resource with your students to practice looking at pronouns in sentences to determine the point of view narration. Your students will be challenged to create new sentences written in first person.

Point of View Pronouns

Use this high-interest text with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject of the Titanic as they establish their own points of view.

Point of View Practice: Titanic

Use this science-themed resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about life cycles. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject as they establish their own points of view.

Point of View Practice: Life Cycle of a Frog

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Text Dependent Questions for Independent Reading

Use this resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about a major historical event. Students will read a passage about the Tsunami of 2004 and determine the author’s viewpoint as they establish their own point

Point of View Practice: The Tsunami of 2004

Children learn about the life of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, in this timeline activity.

Using a Timeline: Barack Obama 

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

Using Text Features in Nonfiction

Practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions using this handy worksheet.

Table of Contents Mystery #2

Reinforce grammar and comprehension as you support your students in understanding the elements of a fictional text! In this activity, students will practice identifying verbs and rewriting the beloved story of "The Frog Prince" in their own words.

Using My Own Words: The Frog Prince

Table of Contents Mystery #1

Kids will practice listening and speaking skills in this interactive vocabulary activity. Students will pair up and take turns responding to questions about difficult words they've encountered and what they learned by using context clues and a dictionary.

Vocabulary Partner Talk

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

Inferring with Quotes

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

Reading Fiction: Main Idea and Details

Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.

Exploring Text Features

Help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting nonfiction texts using this helpful Venn diagram.

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