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.

Use this resource to give your students practice using a dictionary’s guide words to correctly locate a word.

Guide your students towards understanding what it takes to be a reading detective! By identifying synonyms and looking up definitions, they’ll familiarize themselves with some key vocabulary.

Get ready to use your best detective skills in this mystery-filled word activity for second and third graders!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Word Detectives.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Word Detectives.

Have your second and third graders think like detectives as they crack the code and solve the compound word mystery!

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