Context Clues Worksheets

Welcome to our context clues worksheets and instruction page! Learning vocabulary can be challenging. For early literacy students and high school students, it may feel that there is always more to learn. While vocabulary instruction can be delivered in a variety of ways, one of the most critical skills for all students involves helping them use context clues to identify the meaning of an unknown word.

By doing so, this can allow students to determine the approximate meaning of a word when there aren’t quick and easy options to help them define that vocabulary.

Likewise, this contributes to students’ overall reading comprehension skills. The ability to read a sentence and understand surrounding clues such as synonyms, antonyms, and embedded examples is essential. This task will demand critical thinking skills and there are simple and effective acronyms that students can depend on in order to determine a number of different context clues that can help them define unknown words.

CCSS Standard
L.5, L.6, L.7, L.8, R.4, R.5, RF.3, RF.4

Context Clues Worksheets (Printable PDFs)