Context clues with nonsense words

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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!

Practice reading a story and answering questions about main idea, details, making inferences and drawing conclusions.

Context clues worksheets help your child read between the lines. Try this context clues worksheet with your young reader to help him infer based on text. Download to complete online or as a printable!

My woompapa gives me a heart attack every morning! This anchor chart from @missingtoothgrins made me laugh out loud! Using nonsense words to teach context clues.....brilliant! Leave a comment below and tell me about your woompapa! #funny #laughing #teacherlife

Kids love nonsense, in case you haven't already noticed, and this wacky worksheet will work your wonderful wordsmith into a nonsense whirlwind.

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

Hey there online friends! I just wanted to pop in really quick and let you know I just posted a helpful little resource for helping your kiddos use the sentence level context clues to find meaning. I wrote eight short passages and inserted a nonsense word instead of a real word. The kids read the passage and circle the clues that help them make guesses toward the meaning. I used

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