Collecting Words For Writing Activity
This collecting words for writing activity teaches 2nd and 3rd grade students to use context clues on task cards, then collect new words while reading. Answer key included.
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Description
How to Teach Context Clues
Good readers do not stop when they meet a new word. They look at the words around it for clues. This Collecting Words for Writing Activity teaches students to use those context clues, then turns them into word collectors who gather new words from their own books and use them in their writing.
Using the Collecting Words Activity
Start with the Context Clue Tips chart, which explains definition, synonym, antonym, and example clues. Next, students pick a word tag card, read the sentence, find the clue words, and choose the best meaning from three choices. They record each answer and the clue words on the Recording Sheet. Then each child keeps a Word Collector bookmark in a reading book, writes down new words and page numbers, and uses three of them on the Collect and Use page. This 2nd grade context clues activity also fits 3rd grade literacy centers.
What’s Included
- Colorful cover page
- How to Use teacher page
- Context Clue Tips chart
- 12 word tag task cards
- Recording Sheet
- Word Collector bookmarks
- Collect and Use page
- 2nd grade practice worksheet
- Answer keys for the task cards and the practice page
Why This Activity Helps Kids
First, students learn four kinds of context clues they can use in any book. Second, writing down the clue words makes children prove their thinking instead of guessing. Third, collecting and using new words builds a bigger vocabulary that shows up in their own writing.
Ideas for Teachers and Parents
Use the Collecting Words for Writing Activity in a literacy center, a small reading group, or a game of Scoot around the room. At home, parents can read together and help their child fill a bookmark each week. Post the best collected words on a class word wall so everyone can borrow them.
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