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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Vocabulary Words in Context

For Teachers 5th Standards
For this lesson, 5th graders will use context clues as they learn new science vocabulary words through listening, reading and discussing the new content. The terms are associated with the reshaping of the earth's surface.
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Sam Houston State University

Sam Houston State University: Context Clues I: Posttest

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
Use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word in each sentence in this ten-question multiple choice test.
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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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Lesson Plan
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: What Is a Vocabulary Context Clues Lesson Plan?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson plan uses Mad Libs to teach vocabulary using context clues to define unknown words.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Developing Vocabulary Context Clues

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This interactive whiteboard lesson is designed to help students develop their vocabulary by recognizing and analyzing context clues with unfamiliar words.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Vocabulary: Words in Context [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students look for new vocabulary words and context clues to define them while reading an independent reading book. Materials are included.
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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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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Context Clues With Vocabulary

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Rags to Riches: Context Clues

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this game, students use context clues in the passage to determine the meaning of vocabulary words.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Be a Word Detective: Context Clues (Red)

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
An eleven-part learning module with links to images, videos, texts, and quizzes on using context clues to understand vocabulary words.
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Lesson Plan
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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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Critical Reading: Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson 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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Lesson Plan
Read Works

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

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan 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...
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Lesson Plan
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 young scholars to use picture cues and initial word sounds to identify unknown words. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Interactive
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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Interactive
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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Interactive
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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Lesson Plan
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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Article
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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Lesson Plan
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 learners to use visual, meaning, and structure clues separately and together to determine the meaning of unknown words. Lessons are...
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PPT
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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Handout
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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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.