5th Grade Common Core: L.5.4a
Common Core Identifier: L.5.4a / Grade: 5
Curriculum: Language: Vocabulary acquisition and Use
Detail: Use context (e.g., cause/effect relationships and comparisons in text) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
67 Common Core State Standards (CCSS) aligned worksheets found:
Discover the reasons animals migrate and read about the places they travel.
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Students can research the definitions to these words from the book.
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Your students can cut out the vocabulary word cards and definition cards to practice memorizing the definitions for each of them.
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Vocabulary words for these chapters include oblige, seized, delicate, delectable, attire, idiosyncrasy, and destiny.
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Help expand your students' vocabulary with this worksheet that requires them to find the meaning of a word based on the context of the sentence it is used in.
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These unusual animals spend most of their lives at sea, but occasionally climb onto Pacific beaches for a period of rest and molting.
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A group of people stop for ice cream while waiting for a ferry to come. What happens when they stay at the ice cream shop too long?
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Chapters 5 through 8 of Charlotte's Web has ten vocabulary words to review with these printable vocabulary cards. Print them on card stock paper or laminate them so they can be used over and over again.
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Andy can almost feel the first place medal around his neck, but when the last challenge of the field day is a hula hooping competition, Andy will learn what it means to be a true field day champion.
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These vocabulary cards review the words in chapters 5 and six, including: animosity, diligently, domain, barren, commendable, menacingly, and commerce.
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Did you know that a seahorse can't swim well and it can actually die of exhaustion in rough water? Learn many seahorse facts in this article.
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Find and define these challenging vocab words from chapters 18, 19, and 20.
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Have your students practice their vocabulary words from chapters 9 through 12 with these print-and-cut vocabulary cards.
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The last few chapters of Charlotte's Web has 10 vocabulary words for review, including: trembled, pompous, phenomenon, meekly, desolation, forlorn, and sentiments. Print and cut out the vocabulary cards to help study the words and definitions.
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Challenge your students to find these vocabulary words in the book. They can use the Internet or a dictionary to define each.
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Have students look up the meanings of these vocabulary words from the novel.
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Learn about the four layers on the rainforest- the emergent layer, the canopy, the understory, and the floor.
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When a bumble bee is entered into a spelling contest, we discover she's not such a great speller after all.
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The eight vocabulary word cards also have eight corresponding definition cards to use for reviewing the vocabulary words from chapters 1 through 4 of Charlotte's Web.
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Your students will love this fact-filled poem about an opossum mother who takes care of her three joeys.
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These cut-apart vocabulary cards have 9 word cards and 9 definition cards for students to study from.
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Can your students find the definitions to these vocabulary words?
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The words on this worksheet include shrieking, nuisance, mischief, concerned, apparent, and corridor.
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Define each of these vocabulary words. You may want to allow students to use the Internet or have them look up the words in a dictionary.
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Discover how llamas are helpful to people by providing transportation, wool, and meat. They also assist sheep dogs in herding sheep.
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Chapters 11 and 12 have six vocabulary words to review with these cut-apart cards. Students can match the definition to the word.
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There are nearly a thousand different species of bat in the world today. Most eat insects or fruit, but there is one type- the vampire bat- that drinks blood.
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(Approx. Grade Levels: 3-5)
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What's a clockatoo? It's a unique animal that's never tardy. Read this imaginative poem to find out more. (poem)
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A magical fairy disguises herself as a beggar to find an elf worthy of getting his wish granted. The task is harder than it appears. Will she be able to find a worthy elf? Comprehension questions and vocabulary words included.
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Vocabulary words for these chapters include gnawing, objectionable, wits, scheming, hoisted, gratified, scruples, and hysterics.
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A magical fairy is spotted dancing in the garden after a rain shower.
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Have your students review the ten vocabulary words in chapters one and two with these vocabulary cards.
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Cut out the word and definition cards to review the meanings of the words: profusion, promontory, gallant, and lure.
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Learn about the famous naturalist and artist, John James Audubon
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Vocabulary words are used in a sentence. Below each sentence, define each word. Words include glutton, promptly, gaze, approached, and commotion.
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Charlie is the toughest girl in the fifth grade, but when she's dared to look into the "Wailing Well" and find out if a kid-hungry troll really lives there, she's afraid she'll lose her reputation. Charlie must find the courage to prove that some scary stories are just that--stories. (fiction)
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A toucan's colorful bill is certainly beautiful, but did you know that it also helps the toucan in many ways?
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Students can match the definition cards to the word cards in review for the vocabulary words in chapters 17 through 20.
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Find definitions for these six challenging vocab words from the story.
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This poem evokes imagery and makes it easy for the reader to visualize what the poet is writing about. Students will answer questions about the content, complete a vocabulary crossword, and respond to a writing prompt.
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Vocabulary words on this printable include spattered, expanses, expedition, prospect, absent-minded, stout, pompous, and hastily.
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Vocab on this worksheet includes exhibit, sensation, unforeseen, unique, descriptive, and remarks.
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Read the word cards and match the definition cards to the three vocabulary words in chapters 7 and 8, which include: chasms, harrowing, and ominously.
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Henry Hudson Article FREE
Learn about Hudson's attempts to search for a northern passage to Asia.
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Words on this worksheet include spectacle, sympathetic, droll, astonished, spar, amid, scarcely, and sulking.
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Print out these vocabulary cards to practice the definitions for the words: sensation, remarks, exhibit, unforeseen, novelty, descriptive, and unique.
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Use context to fill in the blanks on this cloze activity with terms from the word bank. Terms include Lewis & Clark, Napoleon, New Orleans, Paris, and more words that have to do with the Louisiana Purchase.
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This short article highlights the achievements of Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American woman to earn a medical degree.
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Jim describes the many fascinating duties of his job as a railway mechanic.
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Learn about these white, furry hunters that make their home in the frozen tundra. You'll be amazed at the ways an arctic fox is adapted to live in its freezing environment.
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Words for these chapters include trembled, pompous, rapidly, ails, meekly, desolation, and forlorn.
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Vocab words on this printable include dignity, intention, outraged, neglected, protesting, consented, and ordinance.
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The vocabulary words for review in chapters 17-19 feature: fiercely, aloft, vanish, rejoiced, gorged, and listless. Use the printable vocabulary cards to help study the definitions of the words.
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Students can practice the definitions for the words: outraged, intention, dignity, vigorously, protesting, neglected, consented, and ordinance.
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Look out! The world's second largest, and most ferocious shark may be swimming in an ocean near you.
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Your class can cut out and review the vocabulary words from chapters 18, 19, and 20 with these vocabulary cards.
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Words for this section of the book include fiercely, rejoiced, aloft, vanish, purebred, listless, scramble, and gorged.
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This printable file has 10 vocabulary word cards and definition cards that can be cut apart and used for practice.
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Learn about a variety of invasive algae that is taking over sea floors and killing sea life.
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Strolling through a garden in a late summer evening can bring pleasure to all five senses. In this story, the narrator describes the wonderful sounds, colorful sights, rich aromas, and delicious-tasting food around her.
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Use these printable vocabulary cards to study the vocab. words from chapters 13-16, including: mercilessly, thrashing, monotonous, vaguely, snare, distinguish, and reputation.
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This printable file has 30 cut-apart cards with words and definitions for the vocabulary words for chapters 1 through 4.
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Find out why people play jokes and pull pranks on each other every April 1st.
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Chapters 16 and 17 have fifteen vocabulary words to review definitions for, including: furrow, nonchalantly, disdainfully, indignantly, transfixed, and bellowed.
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Vocabulary words for these chapters include noble, thrashing, vaguely, incessant, mercilessly, monotonous, and snare.
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