Context Clues - Lesson for Grade 1, Chapter - Key Ideas and Details/ Craft and Structure
In the "Context Clues" lesson, Grade 1 students embark on an exciting journey through the realms of Key Ideas and Details as well as Craft and Structure within the unit of Reading Informational Texts. Through engaging activities such as the A Fox Family Worksheet, What Does It Mean? Worksheet, Fish Worksheet, and exercises on Connections Within a Text and Context Specific Word Meanings, students will unlock the power of inferring the meaning of new words using clues embedded within texts.
This foundational skill is critical as it empowers young readers to navigate through unknown vocabulary, enhancing their comprehension and fluency in reading informational texts. By learning to identify and interpret context clues, students will not only expand their vocabulary but also improve their ability to understand and engage with a variety of texts. This skill lays the groundwork for lifelong learning and literacy, enabling students to become confident and independent readers who can extract information, insights, and enjoyment from the written word. This lesson is an essential step in cultivating critical thinking and reading skills that students will use throughout their academic journey and beyond.
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Activity 1 / A Fox Family Worksheet
Sometimes the best way to learn new words is simply by reading! Using context clues based upon the other words in a passage, we can successfully infer the meaning of the word in question. This brilliant worksheet does exactly that, by providing your child with an interesting story about a cute little fox family. While reading, your child will learn that the word “kits” actually refer to baby foxes. Just read the text with your child and circle the picture below it to answer the question.
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Activity 2 / What Does It Mean? Worksheet
Other words or phrases in sentences can give readers a clue as to what another, more unfamiliar word might mean! Teach your child to use context clues to define new vocabulary by printing and completing this delightful reading worksheet from Kids Academy! Task little learners with reading each sentence and finding the targeted word in pink. Based upon the other words in the sentence, what might that word mean? Mark it the answer by checking the box next to the picture that represents its meaning.
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Activity 3 / Fish Worksheet
There's something about the water that kids find irresistible and learning about what lies beneath is just as exciting! With this free PDF worksheet about fish, your young readers will learn about fish and some cool characteristics they have. They'll use larger vocabulary with contextual meaning, and then they'll get to answer the accompanying reading comprehension questions to show what they learned. They'll be given multiple choices to choose from, similar to what they'd find in a classroom, and they'll not even know they're working on reading comprehension and answering skills!
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Activity 4 / Connections Within a Text and Context Specific Word Meanings - Quiz
In this assessment, students will describe the connection between the individuals, events or ideas in a text and use context clues to determine the meaning of content-specific words.
