📝 Context Clues

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About this grade 4 worksheet

Free 4th grade vocabulary worksheet: use context clues to work out the meaning of unfamiliar words. Skill: Using context clues. Level: Grade 4 — also suits Year 5 (UK).

For teachers: skills & standards

• CCSS L.4.4.A: Use context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase
• Works as a morning-work page, a centre/station activity, homework or an early-finisher task.

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What age is it for?

It is designed for Grade 4 (ages 9–10), but use it with any child who is ready.

What skills does it build?

Using context clues.

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