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Read Works: Thawing the Iceman
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining how scientists found a frozen mummy in the Alps and thawed it for further study. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Lobster Blues
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a rare blue lobster. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Cold Faithful
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the study of geysers on the icy surface of Cassini, one of Saturn's moons. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Mean Machines
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the growing problem of cyberbullying and what can be done to stop it. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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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.
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Read Works: Long Live the Vikings
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Viking discoveries made by archeologists. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Rock, Rumble
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining what causes volcanoes to erupt. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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.
Other
Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Understand Precise Vocabulary
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...
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Revolution and the Power of Words
A module where students will determine the meaning of unfamiliar terms using prior knowledge, context clues and examination of word parts.
CPALMS
Cpalms: Building Meaning
In this tutorial, students will acquire tools from Handy Hal that will help them answer questions about unknown words in a text. Students will learn about word parts, picture clues, and context clues to help them with vocabulary...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Differentiated Reading Instruction Worksheets, Activities
A collection of differentiated reading activities are provided in this collection. Worksheets for the following reading topics are included: climax, story structure, elements of a story; fact and opinion; summarizing, narrative sequence;...
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Craft and Structure: Determine the Meaning of Words and Phrases
Learn how to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word in a Social Studies passage.
Read Works
Read Works: A Polar Bear Grows Up [Pdf]
[Free Registration/Login Required] This reading passage is about polar bears growing into adult bears.
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...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Time
In this self-guided unit, you will be working with literature which is centered on the themes of past, present and future. You will experience several different literary perceptions of the past and the future by reading ancient...
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Wisewire: Grade 3 Playlist: Identifying Real Life Connections Between Words
Often, without even realizing it, readers are connecting the words they read to their everyday lives. The human brain is moving so fast that even while reading, behind the scenes, readers are making connections to their real lives and to...
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Suffixes
Interactive quizzes to help develop skill using suffixes in vocabulary. After a short introductory slide show, students are asked to identify the meaning of words in context that use similar suffixes. Next, students fill in the...
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.
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...
Courseware Solutions
Wordville: Vocabulary Bingo
Students choose words to complete sentences and try to get three in a row for a vocabulary bingo in this three-leveled game.
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]
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.
Primary Games
Primary Games: Boggle Quiz: Spring Edition
In this game, students read a clue and then click on the letters in the matrix in order to spell the answer to the clue.