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Making and Using a Graphic Organizer for Solving a Mystery

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create tables in a word processing program which helps them organize their text clues when reading a mystery story. They develop reading comprehension strategies while using a computer based graphic organizer in order to solve...
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Using a Dictionary

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
When do we use dictionaries? Provide this dictionary scavenger hunt for your youngsters. Third and fourth graders search for words, recording the number of syllables or definition for a variety of words. Get your class using dictionaries...
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Vocabulary Review

For Students 4th - 6th
In this vocabulary review, students use context clues to choose answers to complete sentences. Students determine a word or words to logically complete seven sentences.
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Written Conversation

For Students 4th - 6th
In this recognizing meanings of phrases worksheet, students use context clues and the word bank to complete conversation sentences. Students fill in 6 blanks.
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Colorful Idioms

For Students 4th - 6th
In this recognizing meanings of idioms in sentences online/interactive worksheet, students use context clues to determine the correct color words to complete the sentences. Students choose 11 multiple choice answers.
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Building a Case for Clues

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Here's a strategy that can be used with any narrative, whether read by the instructor or as independent reading. At the end of each chapter, learners predict, using prior knowledge as clues, what will happen in the next chapter. Readers...
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Word Search

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Here is a word search that has more educational value than most. After finding the 14 words that have to do with natural resources, learners must then use the words in context. They answer 14 questions on the second page of the...
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Reading Comprehension: Thor and Sif

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Expose your readers to the fascinating legends of Norse Gods Thor and Sif. They read a brief introduction about traditional stories and myths then read several paragraphs on these figures, marking unknown words as they go. Learners look...
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Intermediate Vocabulary Practice

For Students 4th - 6th
In this recognizing vocabulary words in context worksheet, students read sentences and choose the vocabulary word in parenthesis that correctly completes the sentences. Students choose 12 answers.
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Artifacts 2: Artifacts in Context

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore world history by completing artifact worksheets. In this archaeology lesson, students identify the importance of finding clues when researching historical information by utilizing artifacts. Students research the...
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Introducing Synonyms to Early Writers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Upper elementary schoolers examine the concept of synonyms and how using a variety of vocabulary through synonyms can expand their writing skills. They revise a paragraph using synonyms located on the Visual Thesaurus and participate in...
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Practice Book O

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Whether you need resources for reading comprehension, literary analysis, phonics, vocabulary, or text features, an extensive packet of worksheets is sure to fit your needs. Based on a fifth-grade curriculum but applicable to any level of...
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Wrapping It Up

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Class members develop their own glossaries for unfamiliar words in each chapter in Elizabeth George Speare’s The Sign of the Beaver. After recording the word, the page number on which the word appears, and its part of speech, they...
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Idioms

For Students 4th - 6th
In this idioms worksheet, students use context clues provided to determine the meaning of idioms shown in bold-faced type in a set of 12 sentences. An answer key is included.
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Vocabulary Practice: Past Time

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this vocabulary skills worksheet, students respond to 12 multiple choice questions that require them to select the appropriate words to complete the sentences that express past time.
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Story Building: Nasreddin the Ferry Man

For Students 4th - 5th
In this story building worksheet, students choose one of three sentences online to tell the story of Nasreddin the Ferry Man, with answers and score given.
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Vocabulary Review #7 - Christmas

For Students 4th - 5th
In this vocabulary review #7 - Christmas learning exercise, students interactively complete 10 sentences about Christmas by selecting the correct phrase with immediate online feedback.
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Mesmerizing Multiple Meaning Riddles

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students write and illustrate riddles using context clues to define multiple meaning words that they compile into a book. They read the book, Miss Nelson Has a Field Day, and observe the many different multiple meaning words used in the...
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Cloze Passage: Animal Survival

For Students 3rd - 5th
Combine your lessons on animals and context clues with this cloze procedure. Fifth graders fill in the fifteen missing words in the passage to help identify their reading level. There is no word bank provided, so you could create one for...
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Egg-cellent Vocabulary

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students practice vocabulary and reading using the story Bently and Egg. In this reading lesson plan, students match vocabulary words to definitions while using context clues from a story. Students then create sentences using the words.
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Gila Monsters: Matching

For Students 4th - 5th
Learners match the vocabulary terms that are found in the left column with the definitions on the right side of the page. Pupils must solve 15 matching problems. The solution to the activity is viewable online. This could be a good...
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Vocabulary Reading Test Lesson 1

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this vocabulary assessment worksheet, students use the word bank, listen to definition clues to determine which words to write, and create sentences using the words in context. Students complete 36 activities.
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Teaching and Learning Through Objects

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students identify and interpret the function, usefulness or utitlity, form, beauty or aesthetics, and meaning, context or story, of objects and how they learn new skills and make things that they learn traditionally, by observation and...
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Homonym Game

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use structural analysis and context clues to determine meanings of words. They play a game to decode, read, and comprehend written text . They treat others with kindness and fairness and include others in learning and play...

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