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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Definition Context Clues

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the concept of using context clues to comprehend unfamiliar words or phrases in a given text. Types of context clues and their definitions are also included.
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Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Context Clues

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson in which students learn to use context clues in surrounding sentences to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by...
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Sacramento City College: What Are Context Clues?

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This screen is the first of a series of slides about using context clues. It defines context clues. The following screens contain examples and tips on how to use and interpret context clues. Use the Next buttons to complete the...
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Savvas Learning

Pearson Education: Longman Vocabulary Website: Using Context Clues: Word Clues

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This site offers a review of using context clues, along with three progressively more difficult practice exercises. Students match the highlighted word in the sentence with its meaning using a pull down box. In the third exercise, the...
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Savvas Learning

Pearson Education: The Longman Vocabulary Website: Using Context Clues

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discover how to use context clues to improve your reading skills. This resource features exercises for beginners, intermediate and advanced students. L.9-10.4a, L.8.2.B Context/Meaning
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Vocabulary: Words in Context [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students look for new vocabulary words and context clues to define them while reading an independent reading book. Materials are included.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Vocabulary Words in Context

For Teachers 5th Standards
In this lesson, 5th graders will use context clues as they learn new science vocabulary words through listening, reading and discussing the new content. The terms are associated with the reshaping of the earth's surface.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: 103 Things to Do Before/during/after Reading

For Students K - 1st Standards
The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Words in Context: If the Word Fits

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
A lesson plan in which students work with a partner to choose the meaning of the underlined word in each sentence. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Words in Context: Looking for Meaning [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students look for the meanings of unknown words in a text. Materials are included.
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Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 4th Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students explore various strategies for using context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words. With free login, users have access to the passage and other teaching materials used in this lesson.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Introduce Reading Connected Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting introduction to reading! The instructor writes a simple, one-line story on the board from literature, and the students learn to sound out the words.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Intro to Vocabulary Building Reading Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article explains in general how to build vocabulary using reading strategies such as context clues.
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Read Works

Read Works: Into the Flames

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text smoke jumpers who jump out of airplanes in order to fight wildfires. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Quia

Quia: Context Clues

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Read each sentence and use context clues to choose the meaning of the bolded word in this ten-question quiz.
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Quia

Quia: Context Clues Millionaire Game

For Students 3rd Standards
Read each sentence and use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word in this Rags to Riches style game.
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Read Works

Read Works: 3rd Grade: Lesson 1: Visualizing a Setting

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In the course of this lesson, 3rd graders will learn to determine the setting of what they read by using context clues and visualization.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Cognates (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on cognates, words from different languages that have similar spellings, pronunciations, and meanings. It shows ways that people who are in foreign countries can function by finding similar signs and words.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Bird in Hand Lesson Plan

For Students 1st - 2nd
This in-depth lesson, based on the 11-minute story "Bird in Hand" from the PBS Kids series Molly of Denali, helps children use strategies, such as examining the parts of unfamiliar words to figure out their meaning.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Describe Themes in Literary Texts (English 7 Reading)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is about themes, the central messages in literature. Whatever their genre might be, writers have some wisdom, some universal truth or insight to share; this...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Answering Based on Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial lesson, students will review how to answer questions based on context clues. Definitions and short examples are provided related to how to find context clues and then apply the textual evidence to reading...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Differentiated Reading Instruction Worksheets, Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of differentiated reading activities are provided in this collection. Worksheets for the following reading topics are included: climax, story structure, elements of a story; fact and opinion; summarizing, narrative sequence;...
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Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Four Lesson Unit: Vocabulary in Context

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of four lesson plans designed to develop young scholars' vocabulary skills including understanding prefixes, using context clues, and using a glossary and a dictionary. Lessons are based on the...
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Read Works

Read Works: Panthers in Peril

For Teachers 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the decreasing panther population in Florida. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.