Reading Comprehension · Vocabulary Strategy
Context Clues Worksheets
A reading comprehension strategy lesson about using context clues — the words and sentences surrounding an unfamiliar word — to figure out the meaning of new vocabulary without stopping to look it up in a dictionary.
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Choose Your Context Clues Lesson
Two complete context clues lessons are available, each tuned to a different grade band. Pick the one that fits your classroom.
Lesson Plan · Grades 3–5
Context Clues Practice Lesson (Grades 3–5)
An 11-page systematic teaching packet for grades 3–5. Student reference (five clue types with signal words), guided practice, definition clues, synonym clues, antonym clues, example clues, inference clues, multiple-choice practice, short passage practice, and a two-page answer key. All sentences and passages original.
Lesson Plan · Grades 1–3
Context Clues Lesson (Grades 1–3)
A reading comprehension lesson using context clues as a vocabulary strategy. Includes a printable PDF and an answer key. Useful as an introduction to the skill or as a quick warm-up for early-elementary readers.
Subject
Reading Comprehension
Grade Level
Grades 3–7
Format
Lesson + Printable PDF
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Teaching context clues?
Read: Teaching Context Clues as Vocabulary Strategy
Step-by-step guide for elementary teachers covering the five common types of context clues, an explicit student routine, the failure modes, and a 5-day mini-unit.
Also on this topic: Context Clues Reading Strategy Poster is a free printable for the classroom wall.
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