Vocabulary Using Context Clues Teaching Resources :: 625

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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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Critical Reading: Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This activity focuses on increasing your vocabulary including using context clues, dictionaries, and your working vocabulary. It also offers two videos with strategies for enhancing your vocabulary.

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Read Works

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

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson 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 and includes...

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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...

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Room Recess

Room Recess: Skill: Context Clues

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards

Play this online learning game by using context clues to click on the work that best completes each sentence.

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Quia

Quia: Context Clues Jeopardy 1

For Students 5th Standards

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined words in this Jeopardy style learning game.

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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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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Acquiring New Vocabulary

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This instructional activity teaches elementary students new vocabulary terms through book discussion groups. Students use context clues, prior knowledge, and print and online resources for vocabulary understanding in their discussion.

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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Activities for Teaching Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This article focuses on the importance of teaching vocabulary and how to teach it effectively. It lists concepts that need to be considered when preparing to teach vocabulary such as prior knowledge, dictionary use, context clues, and...

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Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards

[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...

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Tom Richey

Slide Share: Understanding Context Clues

For Students 6th Standards

A slide show with forty-two slides with explanations and examples on how to use context clued to determine the meanings of unknown words.

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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading Informational Text: Understand Precise Vocabulary

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards

Learn how to use context clues to help you define precise vocabulary words that you may not know.

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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]

For Students 5th - 8th Standards

This learning module contains three nonfiction reading lessons that will assist student understand how to apply context clues when they encounter new vocabulary words.

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

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to use a glossary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by Robin Johnson and Bobbie Kalman and...

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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...

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Read Works

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

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan 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...

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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...

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Utah Education Network

Uen: Lesson Plan: Learn New Words

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

Lesson plan uses Penquin Post by Debi Gliori to teach young scholars how to use context clues to determine the meaning of new words and to build vocabulary acquisition skills.

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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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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Can Infer Meaning of a Word in Context [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This activity contains two graphic organizers that will help students infer the meaning of words in context. Students can use these graphic organizers as they read nonfiction texts, particularly while reading in the content area.

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Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Understand Precise Vocabulary

For Students 4th Standards

A short explanation of the importance of using precise word choice in writing and using context clues to help you understand the meaning of precise words when reading. Click on Model to for an example with explanation and then click on...

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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.

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