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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

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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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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Other

D'youville College: Core Parts of a Sentence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This online writing lab provides a series of examples on identifying one of the two main components of complete sentences, the subject and the verb. Correctly identifying these parts will result in the ability to write complete sentences.
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Handout
Other

Critical Reading: Subject and Predicate

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Part of a larger site on "The Fundamentals of Critical Reading and Effective Writing," this section on the simple sentence focuses on the subject and the predicate. Definitions and examples are provided along with a section on...
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Elementary Rules of Usage

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Passage from William Strunk's "Elements of Style" explains how the placement of a participial phrase determines if it refers to the subject of the sentence. Examples.
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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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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
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Grammar: Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides a general overview on phrases as an essential element of grammar.
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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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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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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: Key Literacy Component: Morphology

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Morphology describes how words are formed from building blocks called morphemes, the smallest unit of meaning in a word. Students who don't understand this structure have trouble recognizing, understanding, and spelling words. Find out...
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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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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Sentence Structure Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this sentence structures learning module, students will learn more about clauses and phrases via a hands-on approach. PowerPoint lessons, downloadable content, games, and reinforcement worksheets are provided. This module is designed...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 10.1: Parts of the Sentence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explanations and examples to demonstrate how to identify independent and dependent clauses, prepositions and prepositional phrases, participle phrases and gerund...