
Word Endings and Context Clues
1st grade vocabulary review: sort animals and clothing, add jump or jumped, pick the cozy picture, and use a rain clue to choose umbrella.
L.1 vocabulary strategies: using sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word or phrase.

1st grade vocabulary review: sort animals and clothing, add jump or jumped, pick the cozy picture, and use a rain clue to choose umbrella.

1st grade word categories practice: define, draw, sort and connect coat, apple and bed, following a duck example card. Answer key included.

1st grade shades of meaning sort: put march, peek, glare and enormous into move, look and size jars, then pick stomped or tiptoed.

1st grade root words and endings word search: find jump, jumped, jumping, jumps, play, played, playing and plays in a 10 by 10 grid.

1st grade prefixes and suffixes matching: match untie and unload to pictures, pair reread, hopeful and fearless with meanings, and write a sentence.

1st grade context clues fill in: a park story with 10 blanks from a 12-word bank, clue underlining, and a key listing every clue.
L.1.5a
“Sort words into categories (e.g., colors, clothing) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.”
L.1.4c
“Identify frequently occurring root words (e.g., look) and their inflectional forms (e.g., looks, looked, looking).”
L.1.5c
“Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at home that are cozy).”
L.1.4a
“Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.”
L.1.5b
“Define words by category and by one or more key attributes (e.g., a duck is a bird that swims; a tiger is a large cat with stripes).”
L.1.5d
“Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs differing in manner (e.g., look, peek, glance, stare, glare, scowl) and adjectives differing in intensity (e.g., large, gigantic) by defining or choosing them or by acting out the meanings.”
L.1.4b
“Use frequently occurring affixes as a clue to the meaning of a word.”
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RF.1 phonics: knowing the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs and applying them when decoding words.

RL.1 comprehension: asking and answering questions about key details in stories and other texts.

W.1 composition: writing opinion pieces that introduce a topic, state an opinion, and supply a reason for it.

L.1 language conventions: using common, proper, and possessive nouns correctly in speaking and writing.