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K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Take From: Start Unknown Problems [Pdf]
An activity for the students to solve simple word problems.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Add and Subtract Within 100 Word Problems 1
Practice adding and subtracting to solve word problems. These questions are result unknown or change unknown problems. Numbers used are 100 or less. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Add and Subtract Within 100 Word Problems 3
Practice solving word problems with addition and subtraction. These questions are start unknown problems including add to and take from problems. Numbers used are 100 or less. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Informational Text: Determine Meaning of Words and Phrases
Read about six different ways to determine the meaning of unknown words and phrases, and follow the links to get more information on each way. Includes practice worksheets. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.4
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Understand Content Words
Understand how to use content words and context clues to identify unknown words in a reading passage.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Context to Determine Meaning of a Word [Pdf]
This learning module contains three nonfiction reading lessons that will assist student understand how to apply context clues when they encounter new vocabulary words.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Interactive Word Walls [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about interactive word walls, an engaging instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement word walls, find research that supports the practice, and find examples.
Education.com
Education.com: Finding Root Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] Help your students review root words so they can analyze unfamiliar words and figure out the meaning without using a dictionary. In this worksheet, students will identify the root of each word...
Library of Virginia
Virginia Memory: Blank Space: Mapping the Unknown
How did early maps show the mapmakers' perception of the known world? Early mapmakers used maps drawn from coastal explorations, land travels, and even information heard word of mouth from American Indians or from colonists or traders....
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Solving Inequality Word Questions
This tutorial models how to solve word problems which state that one unknown variable is greater or less than another. Includes detailed explanations of sample problems and ten practice questions to try.
Quia
Quia: Root/base Words
In this Concentration game, students match the root words with the words complete with suffixes.
Quia
Quia: Root/base Words
In this learning game, students match words with their correct root word.
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to use visual, meaning, and structure clues separately and together to determine the meaning of unknown words. Lessons are...
Other
Axelson Academy(you Tube:)asking and Answering Questions About Unknown Vocabulary
This video provides teachers an example of how to support critical thinking skills in relation to vocabulary development in kindergarten. [2:45]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Reading Around an Unknown Vocabulary Word: Tutorial
In this slideshow tutorial lesson, students are encouraged to never completely skip an unknown word. The strategies of using context around the word, sounding out the word, looking for familiar words parts, and getting a dictionary are...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Add and Subtract Within 100 Word Problems 2
Practice solving word problems with addition and subtraction. These questions are comparison problems including difference unknown, smaller value unknown, and bigger value unknown. Numbers used are 100 or less.
Other
How to Study: Building Vocabulary: Using Context Clues to Learn Word Meaning
This resource explains six ways authors use context clues that might help readers understand unfamiliar words. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.4, 8.2.B
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Add and Subtract Within 100 Word Problems 1
Practice adding and subtracting to solve word problems. These questions are result unknown or change unknown problems. Numbers used are 100 or less.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Word Questions: Elementary Subtraction
Simple word problems challenge your subtraction skills. If you get stuck, use the clues and the number line for help.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Represent Multi Step Word Problems Using Equations
Represent multi-step word problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Equations include addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: General Triangle Word Problems
Solve word problems that involve general triangles using trigonometry. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Word Problems #3 [Pdf]
An activity for students to solve simple word problems using addition and subtraction.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Add and Subtract Within 100 Word Problems 3
Practice solving word problems with addition and subtraction. These questions are start unknown problems including add to and take from problems. Numbers used are 100 or less.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Using Context Clues (English Iii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on ways of searching through the context for clues to illuminate unknown words. Unknown words interrupt the flow of your reading, and, like a bump in the...