Multiple-meaning words worksheets
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Some words carry more than one meaning: a bat flies at night, and a bat hits a baseball. The rest of the sentence tells you which meaning is on duty.
Four grades, each its own sheet. Print one here, or open a grade for examples and teaching notes.
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2nd grade
Multiple-meaning words have one spelling and more than one meaning, like nail, star or foot. Second graders read a short sentence and choose which meaning the word has there. The other words in the sentence are the clue. It is the same context-clue skill second grade reading standards ask for.
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3rd grade
Multiple-meaning words (teachers also say homographs) are single spellings doing several jobs: bark, ring, trunk, light. Third graders read a sentence and pick which meaning the word carries there, using the neighboring words as evidence.
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4th grade Core grade
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Fourth graders meet meanings that live in different worlds: a court for tennis and a court for a judge, a draft of an essay and a draft under the door. Choosing correctly is context-clue reading with the training wheels off, and it doubles as vocabulary growth.
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5th grade
Fifth graders work the pairs that school subjects depend on: a church organ and a body organ, a marble column and a column of numbers, a school of fish and a school with desks. Textbooks switch meanings without warning; this sheet builds the reflex to notice.
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