Context Clues Practice

2nd Grade ELAVocabulary3 pages

About this worksheet

The Great Camping Adventure is a cloze story with ten blanks and a 12-word bank. 2nd grade students use the clues in each sentence to pick words like soaked, zooming, enormous and exhausted, and two words (tiny and spicy) stay unused. The story follows a rainy camping trip, a silent bear eating berries and hot dogs over the fire. A bonus question asks what scalding means when Dad has to add three ice cubes to his soup. It targets Common Core L.2.4a, and the answer key names the clue for the bonus.

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Curriculum objectives covered

L.2.4a

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

All ten story blanks and the scalding bonus question ask students to use clues in the sentence to find the word.

What's inside this worksheet

Word Bank

Twelve words in a grid, from freezing and delicious to rushing and grumpy. The directions warn that two are extra.

The Great Camping Adventure

Five short paragraphs with ten blanks. Clues such as "bigger than our car" and "moving quickly nearby" point to each answer.

Bonus Context Clue

One boxed sentence about scalding soup, with three choices: very cold, very hot or very sweet.

Answer key

The ten story words in order and b) very hot, with the ice cube clue explained.

How teachers use it

Underline the clue

Ask students to underline the words that point to each answer before they write. The habit carries over to independent reading.

Watch the decoys

Tiny tempts students on the bug sentence, but the clue is speed, so zooming fits. Read that sentence aloud together if several get it wrong.

Guided group

Read the story aloud once, saying "blank" at each gap. Then fill the first paragraph as a group before students finish alone.

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