Practice using context clues with a reading passage about Harold's day. Once kids approach a blank in the sentence, they use the word bank to find the word that fits.

Concepts

context clues, Vocabulary, cloze reading

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Have kids complete the activity as a warm-up before a vocabulary lesson, or for homework
• Complete in a literacy center 

Classroom Considerations

• Picture does not match the topic of the passage (piggy bank for the word bank), which could be confusing in a lesson about context clues

Pros

• Versatile for use in most language arts lessons

Cons

• The story doesn't have an ending, as the topic in the second paragraph is different from the first paragraph