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

Compound Word Meaning

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

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.

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

Glossary: Multiple-Meaning Words

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

Texting: Shades of Meaning

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

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

Students will have better reading comprehension skills after completing this exercise that shows them how to pick out contextual clues.


Determining Meaning Using Context Clues 1

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

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

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

Sensory Words Quiz

Use this worksheet to practice determining the meaning of the new word formed when a prefix is added to a base word.

Perfect Prefixes Practice

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 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!

Using Context Clues to Understand Word Meanings

Help your students review root words so they can analyze unfamiliar words and figure out the meaning without using a dictionary. In this worksheet, students will identify the root of each word containing suffixes and prefixes.

Finding Root Words

Use this resource to give your students practice using guide words to determine a word’s location in the dictionary.

Identify the Guide Words

Helps students become more comfortable using adjectives in their own writing with this creative grammar worksheet!

Write Sentences Using Adjectives

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

Glossary: Using the 5 W's

When reading, we all encounter unknown words at times. But how do we figure them out? In this lesson, students learn how to become a “human dictionary” by using a variety of strategies to figure out the meaning of unknown words. 


Human Dictionary

Sentence clues can help us identify the meaning of new words. Kids use this strategy to identify synonyms in this quiz game.

Vocabulary Quiz: Context Clues

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

Vocabulary Cards: Using the 5 W's

In this grammar worksheet, learners will enjoy writing what each idiom means figuratively, then drawing a picture to illustrate its meaning.

Mixed-Up Idioms

Looking at prefixes, suffixes, and root words can help readers find meaning. Even young readers can start to build their vocabulary from prefixes and suffixes. In this activity, students will create words by combining prefixes, suffixes, and root words.

Prefix, Suffix, Make Sense of It!

Practice using commas in a series with this grammar quiz. Can you find the sentence with correctly placed commas?

Using Commas in a Series: Quiz

Early readers determine if words are spelled with OU or OW in this appealing phonics and spelling worksheet.

Sound of OW and OU

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

Glossary: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

Dig into your dictionary skills! Use this resource to guide students as they determine the right word to look up.

Dig into the Dictionary 2

Can you tell the difference between a simile and a metaphor? Students will seek to distinguish between—and determine the meanings of—simple similes and metaphors with this multiple choice activity.

Simile or Metaphor

Prefixes and suffixes are essential to understanding the meaning of words. Help kids grasp these concepts with this word-matching game.

Prefix & Suffix Fish Game

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

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