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Curated OER

Word Roots 3: Cern, Jur, Leg Intermediate Fill-in-the-Blanks

For Students 8th - 12th
This resource includes a word bank, information about specific word roots, and 12 fill-in-the-blank sentences that will help your class acquire vocabulary. This is an online activity that provides instant feedback. Make connections...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Word Roots 5: NAT, TRACT, SEQU Intermediate Fill-in-the-Blanks

For Students 7th - 12th
This is a straightforward vocabulary exercise in which learners fill in each blank in 12 sentences with a word from a word bank. The activity is somewhat unique because it connects word roots to the meaning of the words, giving learners...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Georgia CRCT Online: 8th Reading Quiz B

For Students 7th - 9th
Practice for a standardized test or reinforce reading comprehension with this practice test, designed for the Georgia Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT). Twelve reading questions about two short passages (one fiction, one...
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

What Can You Infer?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Perhaps one of the most famous and illustrative stories featuring irony, "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry provides many opportunities for learners to make inferences about its characters. After reading a short introductory passage from...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Identify Words Using Picture Clues

For Students K - 1st
In this picture clues activity, students identify the picture and write the word that goes with the picture. Students complete 5 exercises.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

What Are Homophones?

For Students 7th - 9th
A fun instructional activity for homework, a warm-up, or a substitute day! Learners choose the correct word out of a set of homophones, such as made/maid and pale/pail, based on context clues in each sentence. There are twenty-two...
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Study Guide
University of California

Word Analysis Student Workbook

For Students 8th - 10th
Seven strategies for deducing meaning (context clues and signal words, multiple-choice strategies, structural clues, direction, charge, word association, and deconstruction) are presented in a packet designed to develop word analysis...
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Worksheet
Grammar Net

A, An, Some, Any

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
Practice a, an, some, and any with a straightforward instructional activity. Kids fill in the blanks for 20 sentences, using context clues and their knowledge of each word.
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Grammar Net

Prepositions

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
Add a worksheet about prepositions and context clues to your grammar unit. As kids read 20 sentences, they fill in the blanks based on what they read and the prepositions that fit the best.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Soap Boat

For Students K - 2nd
When two vowels go walking, who does the talking? Learners explore this question with several activities featuring words with OA, AI, and EA. The activity includes many fun pictures and requires different skills sets such as context...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Money

For Students 7th - 10th
Work on money-related vocabulary with this practice activity. With words such as "auditors," "mortgage," and "bankrupt," the activity prompts ESL students to choose the correct term based on the context clues of the sentence. These ten...
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Curated OER

Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab: December Holidays

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a celebration of winter holidays in a versatile and straightforward worksheet. Learners read a bank of holiday-themed words, including asceticism, solstice, and myrrh, and use context clues to place them in the correct sentences.
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Organizer
Curated OER

ESL: World Suicide Prevention Day

For Students 6th - 10th
Help to educate your ESL students about World Suicide Prevention Day with this series of activities. Matching key phrases, completing CLOZE paragraphs, and choosing appropriate words based on context clues are just a few of the many ways...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Less vs. Fewer

For Students 7th - 9th
When should you use less, and when should you use fewer? Straighten out this dilemma with a helpful resource about using less vs. fewer based on sentence context clues. After reading detailed instructions and examples, young learners...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Question Marks

For Students K - 1st Standards
Context clues are important when understanding the intent of a sentence. Kindergartners read eight sentences, and decide if each should end in a period or in a question mark. The last two questions prompt kids to draw a mouse and a cat,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Pronouns and Antecedents

For Students 8th - 10th
When should you use a singular antecedent to agree with a collective pronoun? Give this review sheet to your class to clear up this common grammar mistake. Twenty questions challenge young readers to identify the correct pronoun using...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

She's = is or has?

For Students 7th - 9th
Providing eleven sentences for English learners to review, this instructional activity focuses on defining the contractions in each sentence. Students choose the correct definition based on the context clues of the sentence. Contractions...
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Worksheet
Write.com

Which vs. That

For Students 5th - 9th
Show your class the difference between which and that with this basic and straightforward worksheet. Using the context of each sentence, learners circle the appropriate word choice. Assign this as a warm-up activity or a short homework...
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Using Inference in Writing

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
What could have happened to a plane buried in snow? Have kids practice making inferences with a writing prompt for which they describe a photo without using specific key words.
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Activity
Macmillan Education

Celebrations: St Patrick’s Day

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a couple of fun English language exercises. After first activating students' prior knowledge about Ireland and Irish culture during a class discussion, learners work in pairs or small groups to complete a...
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Handout
Nosapo

Reading Activity: Circle the Right

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
Fables can teach us about life's morals, but they are also helpful for reviewing verb tense, spelling, and word choice. Three reading passages feature well-known fables, each with several opportunities for students to circle the correct...
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Handout
Nosapo

Reading, Vocabulary, Comprehension

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
Whether you teach mainstream elementary classes or older English learners, a set of reading comprehension resources is a great addition to your language arts curriculum. Ten activities each include a reading passage and set of...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

On and Off Concepts

For Students K - 1st
In this preposition activity, students review on and off by viewing pictures and reading context clues in sentences. Students practice writing the two words on primary lined paper.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

End Blends

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this word ending blends worksheet, students use words in a word bank, context clues, and pictures to add ending blends to words in sentences. Students complete five words.

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