Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Vocabulary: Understand New Vocabulary Within Context
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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Within Context (English 6 Reading)
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Within Context (English 7 Reading)
You will learn how to determine or clarify the meaning of words using context within a sentence and in larger sections of text.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Context Clues and Analogies (English Ii Reading)
[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.
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 4th Grade Unit
[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...
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Four Lesson Unit: Vocabulary in Context
[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...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Context Clues With Vocabulary
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.
Quia
Quia: Rags to Riches: Context Clues
In this game, students use context clues in the passage to determine the meaning of vocabulary words.
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 3rd Grade Unit: Dictionary
[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...
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context Kindergarten Unit: Using Sound and Picture Cues
[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...
Quia
Quia: Context Clues Millionaire Game
Read each sentence and use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word in this Rags to Riches style game.
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 3rd Grade Unit: Contrasting Statements
[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...
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 3rd Grade Unit: Appositives
[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...
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Probable Passage
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...
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Which Word Sentences 2
Fill in the blank for each sentence by using context clues. A score is tallied and displayed after ten sentences have been completed.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Which Word Sentences 3
Fill in the blank for each sentence by using context clues. A score is tallied and displayed after ten sentences have been completed.
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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Cognates (English Iii Reading)
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...
Read Works
Read Works: Machines Can Move
[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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Using Contextual Story Clues
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
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Bird in Hand Lesson Plan
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Vocab Tip: Create a Sentence
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.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Internalization of Vocabulary Through the Use of a Word Map
Young scholars practice with words and develop both denotative and contextual knowledge through two agents-purposeful sequencing of steps and collaboration with peers.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Word Recognition Skills and Strategies
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.