Valentine’s Day Context Clues Activities

Engage your upper elementary students with these fun and easy to prepare Valentine’s Day Context Clues activities! No prep required, just print them out and use the context clues activities as a Literacy Center that aligns to several Common Core Standards!

This activity includes 3 tiered levels (perfect for differentiation and scaffolding in centers, whole group, small group, etc.) of letters about Valentine’s Day and a graphic organizer to use to determine word meaning from context clues.

Letter #1– Nonsense Words to find word meaning using context clues
Letter #2– Fill in the Blank context clues activity
Letter #3– Determining word meaning using context

These Valentine’s Day context clues activities are perfect for test Prep with a fun, “holiday-ish” theme that will appeal to both boys and girls!

This context clues activity also includes a DIGITAL, Google Slides version that can be used in Google Classroom for distance learning. ‍

What Teachers Are Saying…
“We used this as part of a challenge on Valentine’s Day and it was exactly what I expected. Rigorous, and required deep thinking. Thank you for providing a resource that made Valentine’s day fun but also academic!” – The Tiny Tornado Teacher

“These were a fun an festive review of context clues. Students like having a little bit of holiday while still doing academic work!” – Erin F.

“This is amazing! I have used it every year for 4 years!” – Catherine L.

♥♥♥MORE Valentine’s Day Resources for Upper Grades♥♥♥

Valentine’s Day Math Project
Valentine’s Day Math By the Numbers

Looking for no-prep lessons and slides to teach context clues? Look no further! You can find them here!