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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 5 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 5 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 1: Level 6 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 6 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 6 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 6 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
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English for Everyone

Englishfor Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 6 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 6 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 1: Level 7 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 7 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 7 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 7 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 7 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 7 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
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Handout
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Understand Content Words

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Understand how to use content words and context clues to identify unknown words in a reading passage.
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Unit Plan
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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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students will find a reference poster that will help students inference. Students will find step-by-step directions to help them infer meanings of new words.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: What's My Meaning

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This Concentration-style game asks students to match root words with their meanings while remembering the location of the covered pairs of words. Java is required.
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eBook
Quia

Quia: Subject and Verbs: Identifying Verbs 2

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This is an interactive, online quiz. Choose all the correct definitions for these words. Immediate feedback and explanations are provided.
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PPT
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Appropriate Words or Expressions in Context Power Point

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learn about using context clues to find the most appropriate word choice in a specific context. Practice identifying correct word choices in questions that could be found on standardized tests.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Context Clues Worksheets: Context Clues 2.2

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
This site shares a context clues worksheet. Students will read each sentence, write original definitions of bolded terms, and then write the clues that help them determine the bolded words' definitions. Links for an answer key,...
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Handout
Other

How to Study: Building Vocabulary: Using Context Clues to Learn Word Meaning

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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
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Unit Plan
Other

Sacramento City College: What Are Context Clues?

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This screen is the first of a series of slides about using context clues. It defines context clues. The following screens contain examples and tips on how to use and interpret context clues. Use the Next buttons to complete the...
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Unit Plan
Savvas Learning

Pearson Education: Longman Vocabulary Website: Using Context Clues: Word Clues

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This site offers a review of using context clues, along with three progressively more difficult practice exercises. Students match the highlighted word in the sentence with its meaning using a pull down box. In the third exercise, the...
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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 Multiple Meaning [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students will analyze a word in several different sentences. Students will determine the meaning of the same word in several different contexts. Students will also write their own sentences with the same word in several different contexts.
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Unit Plan
McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill: Informational Text: Determine Meaning of Words and Phrases

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
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
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Teaching Word Meanings as Concepts

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The most effective vocabulary instruction teaches word meanings as concepts; it connects the words being taught with their context and with the students' prior knowledge. Six techniques have proven especially effective: Concept...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Interpreting Vocabulary in Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson explains how to interpret vocabulary by using context. L.9-10.4a Context/Meaning, L.11-12.4a Words/Context
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TES Global

Blendspace: Connotation/denotation

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
Work through links to activities, assessments, websites, and videos to learn about connotation and denotation.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Context Clues Intro

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses context clues and how they are used to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. There is sufficient material for several lessons on this topic. Included are activities and...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Definition Context Clues

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the concept of using context clues to comprehend unfamiliar words or phrases in a given text. Types of context clues and their definitions are also included.