Word Endings and Context Clues

1st Grade ELAVocabulary3 pages

About this worksheet

Four quick vocabulary tasks appear on this 3-page 1st grade sheet. Students sort dog, hat, socks, cat, bird and shirt into two category boxes, then fill jump and jumped into sentences about a frog. A picture question asks which of a soft bed, a block of ice or a spiky cactus is cozy. Last, a context clue sentence about rain needs umbrella, sunglasses or bicycle. It touches Common Core L.1.5a, L.1.4c, L.1.5c and L.1.4a. An answers page gives the sort and the three correct choices.

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Curriculum objectives covered

L.1.5a

โ€œSort words into categories (e.g., colors, clothing) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.โ€

Sort the Words puts six nouns into animal and clothing groups.

L.1.4c

โ€œIdentify frequently occurring root words (e.g., look) and their inflectional forms (e.g., looks, looked, looking).โ€

Word Endings uses the root jump with its -ed and -ing forms.

L.1.5c

โ€œIdentify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at home that are cozy).โ€

What is Cozy links the word to a soft bed, the same example the standard gives.

L.1.4a

โ€œUse sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.โ€

Find the Clue uses raining and stay dry to point to umbrella.

What's inside this worksheet

Sort the Words

Six words to write in two boxes headed Animals and Clothing.

Word Endings

A bank of jump, jumped and jumping for two frog sentences, one that starts with Yesterday.

What is Cozy

The sheet defines cozy, then students choose between the bed, the ice and the cactus and write the letter.

Find the Clue

"It is raining outside, so I need my _____ to stay dry." with three word choices.

How teachers use it

Say the rule

After the sort, ask students what the three animals share and what the three clothing words share. The spoken rule shows who understands the groups.

Cozy at home

After question 3, ask students to name a cozy place in their own home. It turns one picture question into a real-life link.

Underline the clue

For question 4, have students underline raining and stay dry. Those two clues rule out sunglasses and bicycle.

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