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3rd Grade Context Clues Resources

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

Context Clues: Finding Word Meanings

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

Context clues worksheets help your child read between the lines. Try this context clues worksheet with your young reader to help him infer based on text.

Context Clues Worksheet: Word Mystery

Use this resource to assess your students’ mastery of using context clues to determine word meanings.

Context Clues Check-Up

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

Let's cook up a funny story! This fun fill-in-the-blank is sure to please any beginning writer. He'll practice parts of speech as he goes.

Fill in the Blanks Story: Cooking

This analogies worksheet helps children compare two unlike things. Try our analogies worksheet with your third grader to strengthen reading and writing skills.

Analogies Worksheet: We're Related!

Dive into the sea life of Monterey, California, with this third-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Monterey: A City of the Sea

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

Figurative Language: Idioms

Use this worksheet to give children a challenge as they use context clues and their detective skills to figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Be a Word Detective

Help your third grader with reading comprehension in this fun activity page on Rudyard Kipling's charming story, "The Elephant's Child."

The Elephant's Child

Use this resource to assess your students&rsquo; mastery of determining word meanings by utilizing context clues and an understanding of homophones and homographs.

Context Clues Learning Check

Introduce your child to one charming character â Johnny Appleseed! Then, can you guess three of the apple names on the page?

Apple Names and Johnny Appleseed

Your students will break down a complicated sentence and practice rewording new vocabulary in this worksheet.

Shark Sentence Chunk

Use this resource with your students to practice making connections between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will identify the relationships between words and their meanings.

Working with Analogies

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

Children will practice writing and spelling money-related words in this spelling worksheet.

3rd Grade Spelling Test: Money

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

Context Clues Check-In

Your third grader will have fun figuring out clues with this colorful crossword puzzle all about Christmas! She&#39;ll even sneak in some handwriting practice too.

Christmas Crossword Puzzle

What is the rocky cycle? This info sheet answers that question with the help of a colorful diagram and a shout out to important vocabulary.

What is the Rock Cycle?

Is your child a blossoming wordsmith? Challenge them with this analogy worksheet!

Analogies: Sweet Comparisons

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Working with Analogies 2

In this glossary template, students will find definitions and illustrations of words including "allegiance," "pledge," and "indivisible."

Glossary: I Pledge Allegiance

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

Lost Parents: Context Clues

How do events change characters in the story, or the story itself? Use this worksheet to review the concept of cause and effect.

Reading for Comprehension: More Cause and Effect

Students will read a story by Rudyard Kipling and answer comprehension questions that follow.

The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo Comprehension

Children practice using context clues to find the correct definition of 10 words in this engaging multiple-choice worksheet.

Vocabulary Practice: Choose the Definition

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: I Pledge Allegiance.

Vocabulary Cards: I Pledge Allegiance

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

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