TheLearnDenYear 7 · English
Vocabulary Awareness
Year 7 learners practise working out word meaning from context.
The activities include Explore Word Meaning Using Context Clues, Investigate Word Meaning Using Context Clues, Understand Word Meaning in Dickens' Novels Using Context Clues, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, worksheet, teaching. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.
Activities covered
- Explore Word Meaning Using Context Clues
- Investigate Word Meaning Using Context Clues
- Understand Word Meaning in Dickens' Novels Using Context Clues
- Understand Word Meaning in Jane Austens Novels Using Context Clues
- Understand Word Meaning Using Context Clues
Checked learning resources
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Working Out Word Meanings from Context Clues
Twinkl · Video · Account may be required
Year 7 transition video modelling how surrounding words, sentence meaning and word parts reveal unfamiliar vocabulary.
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Word Detective Context Clues Activity Sheet
Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required
Eight sentence-level questions requiring learners to infer highlighted word meanings from context, with answers.
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Dealing with unfamiliar words
BBC Bitesize · Teaching · Opens on the provider website
An English article on how to deal with unfamiliar words and extend your vocabulary.
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Dickens vocabulary in context
Project Gutenberg · Teaching · Opens on the provider website
Exact Dickens prose supports working out unfamiliar vocabulary from sentence and narrative context.
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Jane Austen novels for vocabulary in context
Project Gutenberg · Teaching · Opens on the provider website
Authoritative public-domain collection of Jane Austen novels for inferring word meaning from exact literary context.