[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...

This resource will help you develop your birdwatching skills. It includes how to find birds, basic tips and how to use field marks such as patterns and colours to help distinguish species.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on using a combination of reference materials and analyzing context clues and analogies to improve your knowledge of new words.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on strategies for using context clues and analogies to determine the meaning of words, sentences, and paragraphs.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 30 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard L.3.4.A: Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert to teach students to use picture cues and initial word sounds to identify unknown words. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Let's make a cake! Students will identify sequence words in a procedural text and use those clues to identify where the step belongs in a procedural text. The end result will be a yummy cake!

Explore how weather can change during snowstorms in this slideshow produced by WGBH. The images show the progression of snowstorms from a light flurry to a steady snow to a blizzard to conditions after a storm ends. Students can use the...

A student's quick-reference guide to using context clues while reading.

This lesson explains how to use contextual story clues to determine the meaning of unknown vocabulary. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content. RL.11-12.4 Words/Context/Story, L.11-12.4a Words/Context

[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 5 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard L.3.4.C: Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 22 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard L.4.4.B: Use common, grade appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as...

In this game, students use context clues in the passage to determine the meaning of vocabulary words.

This lesson focuses on using context clues within a sentences to determine the meaning of an unknown word. Additional skills of prefixes and root words are included. Answer pages are provided for each practice activity.

Read each sentence and use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word in this Rags to Riches style game.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This reading comprehension flipchart uses Activote and a puzzle to review context clues and inferences. It is intended to review for the FCAT or other state assessment exams.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The flipchart focuses on context clues.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Teach students to identify the sequence of a story by looking at transitional words such as "first" and "then" in the book Henry and Mudge: The First Book of Their Adventures by Cynthia Rylant. Learning...

This nonfiction children's book was created by 1st grade students at the Genesee Valley Community Charter School in Rochester, New York, as part of a learning expedition on fossils and local geological history. The expedition consisted...

The town of Clutterbuck is full of mysteries. Select a mystery and use the tools and information provided to help Penelope Peetnik and the Problem Solver's Agency solve the mystery.

Solve this crossword puzzle by using prefixes to create antonyms of the words given in each clue. Hints are available if needed, and answers can be checked when the puzzle is finished.

[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.

Included is a brief article outlining the skills that readers, all educational levels, use when they identify printed words. This site contains background material only and no related activities.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to use pictures and word clues to determine the setting of fiction texts. Lessons are based on the books The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down by Paul...