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Kindergarten - 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

Go on a crazy camping adventure with this fill-in-the-blanks story! Your student can practice their parts of speech as they fill in the missing words.

Fill in the Blanks Story: Camping

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

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

Context Clues Check-Up

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

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

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!

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

Figurative Language: Idioms

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

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

Monterey: A City of the Sea

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

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

Learning About Maps!

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

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

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

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?

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

Context Clues Check-In

Beat boredom with this ensemble of printables! Kids will be occupied for hours with bingo, fill-in-the-blanks and different license plate games. Beware: they may result in spelling and math practice.

Road Trip Games

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

Lost Parents: Context Clues

Looking for a worksheet to help you third grade child with vocabulary? This printable will help him by using context clues.

Context Counts!

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

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 this activity to reinforce using sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text!

Magnificent Bears!

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

3rd Grade Spelling Test: Money

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

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

This worksheet template can be used to introduce students to new vocabulary words.

Graphic Organizer Template: Vocabulary Instruction Chart

Help your child monitor their progress as readers with this reading goals worksheet. The act of reflecting and goal setting will set students up for reading success!

My Reading Goals

Early readers can use picture clues to help figure out new or unknown words. In this reading fluency worksheet, students learn how examining pictures for context clues can help them decode text.

Word Meaning: Picture Clues

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

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Kindergarten - 3rd Grade Context Clues Resources