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When you encounter a vocabulary word with which you are unfamiliar, what do you do? Use the context clues to determine the word's meaning.

I have created context clues worksheets to help my students in the classroom. I am sharing them with you in the hopes that they will help you as well. The words have been selected from texts recommended by Common Core. These context clues worksheets have been divided into three levels:

Level One

These are the easiest context clues worksheets. These worksheets were designed to help struggling students or students in lower grades. They were written to help students reading at a 3rd to 6th grade reading level. Be sure to preview all materials before using them in your classroom.

Level Two

These worksheets were designed for students with intermediate reading and vocabulary skills. They are written for students reading at a 5th to 8th grade reading level.

Level Three

These are the most difficult context clues worksheets. These were designed for students with advance reading and vocabulary skills. These worksheets may be appropriate for students reading at an 8th to 12th grade level.

What are Context Clues?

Context clues are hints in the sentence that help good readers figure out the meanings of unfamiliar words. When we look at the "context" of a word, we look at how it is being used. Based on how these words are used, and on our knowledge of the other words in the sentence, we make an educated prediction as to what the challenging vocabulary word may mean.

Example of Using Context Clues

Examine this line from Lewis Carroll's poem, "Jabberwocky":

The frumious Bandersnatch!

Though neither "frumious" nor "Bandersnatch" were words before Carroll coined them, readers are able to get meaning out of the construction based on how the words are used. A reading of the whole poem is helpful way to introduce context clues to your students.

Common Core State Standards Related to Context Clues

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.6 - Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.

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CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.8.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.4 -Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful. (Include Shakespeare as well as other authors.)

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.4 - Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.4 - Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.4 - Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.7.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.8.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text (e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10).

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Based on the novel by Upton Sinclair, this is a video of a possible movie trailer for the book. For those that don't know, The Jungle talks about the life of a Lithuanian immigrant that comes to Chicago during the industrial revolution that occurred within the city. The focus of this book is on this immigrants life, and it exposes the harsh realities of the people who lived in poverty.

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Muckraker, any of a group of American writers identified with pre- World War I reform and exposé literature. The muckrakers provided detailed, accurate journalistic accounts of the political and economic corruption and social hardships caused by the power of big business in a rapidly industrializing United States. The name muckraker was pejorative when used by U.S. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt in his speech of April 14, 1906; he borrowed a passage from John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress that referred to "the Man with the Muckrake...who could look no way but downward." But muckraker also came to take on favourable connotations of social concern and courageous exposition.

Where does the term muckraker come from?

What does the term muckraker mean?

Who was the first muckraker?

The muckrakers' work grew out of the yellow journalism of the 1890s, which whetted the public appetite for news arrestingly presented, and out of popular magazines, especially those established by S.S. McClure, Frank A. Munsey, and Peter F. Collier. The emergence of muckraking was heralded in the January 1903 issue of McClure's Magazine by articles on municipal government, labour, and trusts, written by Lincoln Steffens, Ray Stannard Baker, and Ida M. Tarbell.

Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

The intense public interest aroused by articles critical of political corruption, industrial monopolies, and fraudulent business practices rallied journalists, novelists, and reformers of all sorts to sharpen their criticism of American society. Charles Edward Russell led the reform writers with exposés ranging from The Greatest Trust in the World (1905) to The Uprising of the Many (1907), the latter of which reported on methods being tried to extend democracy in other countries. Lincoln Steffens wrote about corrupt city and state politics in The Shame of the Cities (1904). Brand Whitlock, who wrote The Turn of the Balance (1907), a novel opposing capital punishment, was also a reform mayor of Toledo, Ohio. Thomas W. Lawson, a Boston financier, provided in "Frenzied Finance" ( Everybody's, 1904-05) a major exposé of stock-market abuses and insurance fraud. Tarbell's The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904) exposed the corrupt practices used to form a great industrial monopoly. Edwin Markham's Children in Bondage was a major attack on child labour. Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle (1906) and Samuel Hopkins Adams's The Great American Fraud (1906), combined with the work of Harvey W. Wiley and U.S. Sen. Albert J. Beveridge, brought about passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. David Graham Phillips's series "The Treason of the Senate" (Cosmopolitan, 1906), which inspired Pres. Roosevelt's speech in 1906, was influential in leading to the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution, which provided for popular senatorial elections. Muckraking as a movement largely disappeared between 1910 and 1912.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by Brian Duignan, Senior Editor.

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Unit 1 level G

1. Acquisitive

2. Arrogate

3. Banal

4. Belabor

5. Carping

6. Coherent

7. Congeal

8. Emulate

9. Encomium

10. Eschew

11. Germane

12. Insatiable

13. Intransigent

14. Invidious

15. Largesse

16. Reconnaissance

17. Substantiate

18. Taciturn

19. Taciturn

20. Temporize

21. Tenable

Unit 2  level G

1. accost

2. brakish

3. gambit

4. incendiary

5. overt

6. sacrilege

7. talisman

8. animadversion

9. celerity

10. halcyon

11. maelstrom

12. pejorative

13. summarily

14. undulate

15. avid

16. devious

17. histrionic

18. myopic

19. suppliant

Unit 3 level G

1. cavort

2. credence

3. decry

4. dissemble

5. distraught

6. eulogy

7. evince

8. exhume

9. feckless

10. murky

11. nefarious

12. piquant

13. primordial

14. propinquity

15. substantive

16. unwonted

17. utopian

18. verbiage

19. verdant

20. viscous

Unit 4  level G

1. atrophy

2. bastion

3. concord

4. consummate

5. disarray

6. exigency

7. flotsam

8. frenetic

9. glean

10. grouse

11. incarcerate

12. incumbent

13. jocular

14. ludicrous

15. mordant

16. nettle

17. pecuniary

18. pusillanimous

19. recumbent

20. stratagem

Unit 5  level G

1. acuity

2. delineate

3. depraved

4. enervate

5. esoteric

6. fecund

7. fiat

8. figment

9. garner

10. hallow

11. idiosyncrasy

12. ignominy

13. mundane

14. nuance

15. overweening

16. penchant

17. reputed

18. sophistry

19. sumptuous

20. ubiquitous

Unit 6  level G

1. abject

2. agnostic

3. complicity

4. derelict

5. diatribe

6. effigy

7. equity

8. inane

9. indictment

10. indubitable

11. intermittent

12. moot

13. motif

14. neophyte

15. perspicacity

16. plenary

17. surveillance

18. sylvan

19. testy

20. travesty

Unit 7  level G

1. allay

2. bestial

3. convivial

4. coterie

5. counterpart

6. demur

7. effrontery

8. embellish

9. ephemeral

10. felicitous

11. furtive

12. garish

13. illusory

14. indigent

15. inordinate

16. jettison

17. misanthrope

18. pertinacious

19. picayune

20. raiment

Unit 8  level G

1. allege

2. arrant

3. badinage

4. conciliate

5. countermand

6. echelon

7. exacerbate

8. fatuous

9. irrefutable

10. juggernaut

11. lackadaisical

12. litany

13. macabre

14. paucity

15. portend

16. raze

17. recant

18. saturate

19. saturnine

20. slough

Unit 9  level G

1. acclamation

2. bucolic

3. calumniate

4. charry

5. collusion

6. dilettante

7. imperturbable

8. increment

9. mandate

10. paltry

11. paroxysm

12. pedantry

13. peregrination

14. redolent

15. refulgent

16. shibboleth

17. tyro

18. unremitting

19. vacillate

20. vituperative

Unit 10  level G

1. askance

2. attenuate

3. benign

4. cavil

5. charlatan

6. decimate

7. foible

8. forgo

9. fraught

10. inure

11. luminous

12. obsequious

13. obtuse

14. oscillate

15. penitent

16. peremptory

17. rebuff

18. reconnoiter

19. shambles

20. sporadic

The Jungle vocab:
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Sage
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Notorious
Compute
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Repute
Putative
Presage
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Alliteration
Acronym
Ascribe
Circumscribe
Conscription
Ignominious
Literal
Literate
Nomenclature
Obliterate
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Proscribe
Pseudonym
Subscribe
Transcribe
Analogy
Apologist
Choreography
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Epigraph
Epilogue
Eulogy
Graffiti
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