Fill the Story: Multiple-Meaning Words
Short stories where the words around a blank tell you its meaning.
Learning Path · Meaning and fluency
DE 15 Vocabulary & Semantics
Deepening word knowledge and the relationships between words.
In DE 15
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DE 15 games (40)
Match & Remember: Sentence and Meaning
A memory game: match each sentence with the meaning of its multiple-meaning word.
Mystery Reveal: Find the Meaning
Choose the sentence that uses a word with a given meaning, like bank as the side of a river.
Reading Race: Which Meaning?
Read each sentence and choose what the word means here: bank for money or bank of a river?
Word Sort: Two Meanings of light
Sort phrases by the meaning of light: not heavy, or what a lamp gives off.
Match & Remember: Synonym Pairs
A memory game: match words that mean the same, like big and large.
Reading Race: Synonyms
Choose the word that means the same, like big and large.
Skill Bingo: Synonyms
Bingo with synonyms: find a word that means the same as big, happy, fast, or wet.
Word Maze: Words That Mean Big
Follow the words that mean big, like large, huge, and gigantic. Other words block the way.
Word Sort: Synonym Groups
Sort words into synonym groups: big words, happy words, fast words, and wet words.
Fill the Story: Opposites
Short stories that use opposites like hot and cold, open and shut.
Match & Remember: Opposites
A memory game: match words with their opposites, like hot and cold.
Mystery Reveal: Make the Opposite
Choose the word that means the opposite: unhappy, not happily or happiness.
Reading Race: Opposites
Choose the opposite of each word, like hot and cold.
Word Sort: Kinds of Opposites
Sort opposite pairs: either/or (on/off), more or less (hot/cold), or made with a prefix (happy/unhappy).
Feed the Monster: Only Foods
Feed the monster only words that name foods. Skip animals, weather, and tools.
Match & Remember: Part and Whole
A memory game: match each part with the whole it belongs to, like wheel and car.
Mystery Reveal: Analogies
Finish each analogy: hot is to cold as up is to ___. Reveal a hidden picture.
Skill Bingo: Categories
Bingo with categories: find an animal, a food, a kind of weather, or a tool.
Word Sort: Categories
Sort words into categories: animals, foods, weather, and tools.
Fill the Story: Context Clues
Short stories where the words around each blank help you choose.
Match & Remember: New Words
A memory game: match each new word with its meaning, like drowsy and sleepy.
Mystery Reveal: What Kind of Clue?
Name the kind of context clue in each sentence: definition, synonym, contrast, example, or inference.
Reading Race: Context Clues
Read each sentence and use the clues to figure out a new word, like drowsy.