Fill the Story: Multiple-Meaning Words
Short stories where the words around a blank tell you its meaning.
Learning Path · Meaning and fluency
Deepening word knowledge and the relationships between words.
5 games
5 games
5 games
5 games
5 games
5 games
5 games
5 games
Short stories where the words around a blank tell you its meaning.
A memory game: match each sentence with the meaning of its multiple-meaning word.
Choose the sentence that uses a word with a given meaning, like bank as the side of a river.
Read each sentence and choose what the word means here: bank for money or bank of a river?
Sort phrases by the meaning of light: not heavy, or what a lamp gives off.
A memory game: match words that mean the same, like big and large.
Choose the word that means the same, like big and large.
Bingo with synonyms: find a word that means the same as big, happy, fast, or wet.
Follow the words that mean big, like large, huge, and gigantic. Other words block the way.
Sort words into synonym groups: big words, happy words, fast words, and wet words.
Short stories that use opposites like hot and cold, open and shut.
A memory game: match words with their opposites, like hot and cold.
Choose the word that means the opposite: unhappy, not happily or happiness.
Choose the opposite of each word, like hot and cold.
Sort opposite pairs: either/or (on/off), more or less (hot/cold), or made with a prefix (happy/unhappy).
Feed the monster only words that name foods. Skip animals, weather, and tools.
A memory game: match each part with the whole it belongs to, like wheel and car.
Finish each analogy: hot is to cold as up is to ___. Reveal a hidden picture.
Bingo with categories: find an animal, a food, a kind of weather, or a tool.
Sort words into categories: animals, foods, weather, and tools.
Short stories where the words around each blank help you choose.
A memory game: match each new word with its meaning, like drowsy and sleepy.
Name the kind of context clue in each sentence: definition, synonym, contrast, example, or inference.
Read each sentence and use the clues to figure out a new word, like drowsy.