Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Describing Weather
Lean twenty-two words to use when describing the weather by reading short passages and using context clues to define weather related vocabulary words.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: What Is a Sentence?
An explanation of a sentence and its parts.
Other
Prezi: Explicit v. Implicit Meaning
Slideshow investigates how to determine what the text is saying v. what it means.
Other
Prezi: Tone, Diction, and Analysis of Word Choice
Slideshow explores the connection between word choice and the author's tone.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Context Clues
This downloadable slideshow focuses on context clues including definitions, the four types, and examples.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Context Clues
A slide show with sixteen slides explaining and giving examples of four different types of context clues: synonyms, antonyms, explanation, and example.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Comprehension Context Clues
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses context clues and how students can use them to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Homographs/multiple Meaning Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students will use dictionary entries to identify the meaning used in sentences.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Example Context Clues
This lesson introduces example context clues. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content. L.11-12.4a Words/Context
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Identifying Connected Words
This lesson explains how to identify connected words when determining the meaning of unknown vocabulary. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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
Education Development Center
Tv411: Vocabulary: Finding New Ways to Say Something: Activity 1 of 3
Practice your vocabulary skills by choosing the stronger synonym from a word bank to complete each sentence.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: The Parts of a Sentence
This section on sentences includes information on subjects and predicates as well as objects and complements. It provides a brief overview along with several examples of usage and links to parts of the sentence.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Identifying Clauses
This site is set up like a quiz with ten questions involving various groups of words that must be identified as either a phrase or a clause.
Other
The Phrase Finder
Use this tool to find the origins and meanings of phrases, sayings and cliches.
Other
Literacy for the 21st Century: Six Types of Context Clues [Pdf]
This is a chart that explains the six types of context clues with descriptions and sample sentences. It includes definition, example/illustration, grammar, logic, contrast, and word roots and affixes.
Other
Pearson Adult Learning Center: Prepositional Phrases: Adjective or Adverb?
A ten-question quiz where students are asked to determine if the prepositional phrase in each sentence acts as an adjective or an adverb. Immediate feedback is provided for each answer and a percentage score is tallied and displayed...
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.
University of Michigan
Personal Site: Antagonyms
This personal site is a good resource page for teachers who are teaching about word meanings, slang, synonyms, antonyms and word contradictions.
University of Calgary
The Basic Elements of English: Clause Identification
This page from an online grammar guide provided by the University of Calgary gives a definition and example of a clause.