Teaching context clues

Learn 3 tips to help you teach your students how to use context clues. You'll learn the 5 types of context clues and how you can teach them to your students.

These activities for context clues are designed to help you teach your students how to decipher new vocabulary. Includes free materials for teaching context clues

Teach context clues using these highly rigorous and engaging lesson plans. Many close reads, mentor texts, and small group lesson plans provided!

Teach students about context clues with these ideas and activities.

This is a fun and FREE activity for your elementary students when practice context clues! Students will create an imaginary word and, using only context clues, classmates will have to guess what their word actually means! This freebie includes student directions, activity pages, and a recording sheet for students to record their classmates' words. Your whole class will love practice context clues with this activity. Read more on the blog!

These context clues activities will help increase students' knowledge in identifying unknown words' meanings. Perfect for 4th & 5th grade.

Need a simple way to teach context clues? Check out these 3 interactive anchor charts that are perfect for any elementary classroom! Add these lessons and activities to your Language, Reading Literature, and Reading Informational lesson plans to help your students master context clues.

Working on context clues with older students? Sometimes it can be a challenge to figure out where to start with context clues in speech therapy. This post provides advice and guidance for teaching context clues when you aren't sure where to start with speech students. Click through to get more information inside!

Hi there! It’s Deb Hanson from Crafting Connections, and I’m going to share a free context clues lesson with you today. This lesson is arranged in a similar way to a character traits lesson that I shared with you last year! If you do decide that you want to try this activity with your students, be sure to click on the image below. The cup labels and sentence strips for this lesson are available in the FREE download. I almost always start my ELA units with a PowerPoint presentation to…

Calling all teachers of little word detectives! Here are my favorite books and videos for teaching context clues. The videos are ideal for teaching kids how to define unknown words by using clues around the word to figure out the meaning. It shares context clues where the definition is given, synonym, antonym, and an example.