Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Vocabulary: Understand New Vocabulary Within Context

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A learning module that teaches students how to use context clues to understand new vocabulary words with six mini-lessons: Introduction, The Clues in Context, General/Inferential Context Clues, Definitions/Example Context Clues, Synonym...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Within Context (English 6 Reading)

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
You will learn how to use context (e.g., cause and effect or compare and contrast organizational text structures) to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar or multiple-meaning words.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Within Context (English 7 Reading)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
You will learn how to determine or clarify the meaning of words using context within a sentence and in larger sections of text.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Context Clues and Analogies (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[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.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 4th Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learners 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...
Lesson Plan
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 students' vocabulary skills including understanding prefixes, using context clues, and using a glossary and a dictionary. Lessons are based on the books...
Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Context Clues With Vocabulary

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Rags to Riches: Context Clues

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this game, students use context clues in the passage to determine the meaning of vocabulary words.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 3rd Grade Unit: Dictionary

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of a Beetle by Bobbie Kalman and Molly Aloian...
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context Kindergarten Unit: Using Sound and Picture Cues

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[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...
Interactive
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.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 3rd Grade Unit: Contrasting Statements

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to use contrasting statements within a sentences to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson includes directions for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 3rd Grade Unit: Appositives

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to use information within appositives to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of a Beetle by Bobbie Kalman and Molly...
Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Probable Passage

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section provides help in using the "probable passage" technique to aid comprehension. In addition, links are available to...
Interactive
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Which Word Sentences 2

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Fill in the blank for each sentence by using context clues. A score is tallied and displayed after ten sentences have been completed.
Interactive
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Which Word Sentences 3

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Fill in the blank for each sentence by using context clues. A score is tallied and displayed after ten sentences have been completed.
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Reading Around an Unknown Vocabulary Word: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Cognates (English Iii Reading)

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
In this lesson you'll learn about different types of cognates, words that sound or look alike from one language to the next. You'll learn how leveraging cognate knowledge helps you figure out unfamiliar words in English. When you combine...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Machines Can Move

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about simple machines people use every day. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Using Contextual Story Clues

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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
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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.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Vocab Tip: Create a Sentence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This video lesson provides a tip to learn new vocabulary. Look up the word in online dictionary, and then create a short sentence using the word including context clues and a familiar topic. Real Player is required.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Internalization of Vocabulary Through the Use of a Word Map

For Teachers 5th - 9th Standards
Young scholars practice with words and develop both denotative and contextual knowledge through two agents-purposeful sequencing of steps and collaboration with peers.
Professional Doc
Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Word Recognition Skills and Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.