Interesting or New Words Worksheet
The Interesting or New Words Worksheet helps 3rd Grade readers use context clues in a windmill passage to figure out five new words, with four bubble questions, a written response, and an answer key.
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Description
Every good reader meets words they have never seen before, and the best readers slow down and look at the words around them for clues. The Interesting or New Words Worksheet gives students a short non-fiction passage about old windmills and asks them to work out five interesting or new words from the text itself. Three of the words — sails, millstone, and grain — are explained right in the sentence where they appear. Two more, gust and miller, are never explained at all, so readers must piece together the meaning from the sentences nearby.
This 3rd Grade Context Clues Worksheet is printable and ready to use. Page one holds the passage and a bright illustration of a windmill beside a wheat field. Page two holds four multiple-choice questions and one written response with lines for students to write. Page three is the answer key, so checking work is quick. Print one copy per student, read the passage together or independently, and then let students answer the questions on their own.
What’s Included
- A 242-word non-fiction passage about how windmills grind grain into flour, written on a third-grade reading level
- Five target words, three defined in context and two that must be inferred
- Four multiple-choice questions asking “What is the meaning of the word ___ in this passage?”
- One written response that asks students to use two details from the text
- A complete answer key
Three Reasons This Helps Kids
- Students learn to stop at an unfamiliar word and hunt for the clue beside it instead of skipping ahead
- Two words with no definition push readers past copying into real inference
- Every wrong choice is a believable guess, so the right answer has to come from the text
Ideas for Teachers and Parents
Use the Interesting or New Words Worksheet to launch a unit on context clues, then keep it as a model for any book the class reads next. Have students underline the words that gave each meaning away before they fill in a bubble, and compare their underlines with a partner. Afterward, invite students to keep a running list of interesting or new words from their own reading and write what they think each one means. At home, choose one unfamiliar word from a bedtime story and let your child guess its meaning from the sentence before checking a dictionary.
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