Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Context Clues and Analogies (English Ii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on strategies for using context clues and analogies to determine the meaning of words, sentences, and paragraphs.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Context Clues
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives students practice using context to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word. Included are practice activities and assessment pages.
Other
Wasatch County School District: Types of Context Clues [Pdf]
This chart clearly defines types of context clues that help students master unfamiliar vocabulary. Potential signal words and examples are provided.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Within Context (English 7 Reading)
You will learn how to determine or clarify the meaning of words using context within a sentence and in larger sections of text.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Applying Word Strategies: Multiple Choice Review: Practice 1
In this practice lesson, which focuses on applying word strategies to understand the text, students will sample a classic story of transformation, a transformation from good to bad and back again. This transformation story has become a...
Savvas Learning
Pearson Education: The Longman Vocabulary Website: Using Context Clues
Discover how to use context clues to improve your reading skills. This resource features exercises for beginners, intermediate and advanced students. L.9-10.4a, L.8.2.B Context/Meaning
Savvas Learning
Pearson Education: Longman Vocabulary Website: Using Context Clues: Word Clues
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...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Context Clues Intro
[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...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Use Context Clues to Decipher Words
This reading resource discusses the strategy of using context clues to decipher new words. A list of guiding questions is provided to help students as they use context clues to understand new words.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Developing Vocabulary Context Clues
[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.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Can Infer Meaning of a Word in Context [Pdf]
This activity contains two graphic organizers that will help students infer the meaning of words in context. Students can use these graphic organizers as they read nonfiction texts, particularly while reading in the content area.
Sam Houston State University
Sam Houston State University: Context Clues I: Posttest
Use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word in each sentence in this ten-question multiple choice test.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Context Clues and Analogies (English Ii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn to find the meaning of words through analogy and other word relationships. L.9-10.5 Fig Lang/nuances
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Context Clues
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson in which students learn to use context clues in surrounding sentences to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding New Vocabulary Within Context
Learn how to find the meanings of words through analogy and other word relationships.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Words in Context: Looking for Meaning [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students look for the meanings of unknown words in a text. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Words in Context: If the Word Fits
A lesson plan in which learners work with a partner to choose the meaning of the underlined word in each sentence. Materials are included.
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]
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.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Contextual Clues
Strategies to help students recognize the meaning of words through contextual clues provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes strategies such as C(2)QU (See Two Cue You), PReP (Prereading Plan),...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Examining Nearby Words
This lesson explains how to examine nearby words when determining the meaning of vocabulary words. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content. L.11-12.4 Word Meanings, L.11-12.4a Words/Context
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 4th Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students explore various strategies for using context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words. With free login, users have access to the passage and other teaching materials used in this...
Other
Crossroads Education: Context Clues Chart
A student's quick-reference guide to using context clues while reading.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Context Clues
This downloadable slideshow focuses on context clues including definitions, the four types, and examples.
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.