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.
Context Clues Worksheets (Printable PDFs)
Use this printable context clues anchor chart as a great resource to hang up in your classroom or to send home with students!
Students will read through each sentence and fill in the blank using the words from the word bank!
Find the clue in each sentence that helps you understand the underlined word. Then, write a synonym.
Read the given sentences and highlight the context clues to find the meaning of the underlined word.
Students will practice highlighting context clues to find the meaning of a given word in each sentence.
Read through each sentence. Then, write the meaning of the underlined word using context clues.
Students will write a sentence on their own using the vocabulary word. Make sure to use context clues so readers can better understand the sentence!
Replace each nonsense word in the provided sentences with a word that makes more sense using context clues.
Match the antonyms in the word box. Then, fill in the blanks in the sentences below using context clues.
Students will practice identifying antonyms with this matching activity. Then, they will be asked to fill in the blanks in each sentence below using context clues.
Read the given passage and answer a set of related comprehension questions focusing on context clues.
Read the printable passage about the Amazon rainforest and answer the related questions using context clues.
Here, students will read the passage and answer the following questions using context clues.
Learn about the ocean with this printable reading passage. Then, answer the related questions focusing on using context clues!