3rd Grade Science Context Clue Tool

Read each sentence, use context clues, and choose the one correct meaning for each science word.

Science Reading Passage

Listen to the paragraph, then pull context clues from it to help with each vocabulary word.

On Saturday, Ava visited a pond habitat where frogs and fish found food, water, and shelter. Later, the sun warmed the pond, and she noticed tiny puddles near the path disappearing by evaporation, which means the water was changing into gas. A pinecone dropped from a tree and fell down because gravity pulls things toward Earth. A heron waited quietly and then caught a fish, so Ava knew it was a predator. When she slid her shoes on the wooden dock, friction slowed her movement. Ava wrote in her notebook that every plant and animal she saw was an organism, or a living thing.

Picture Clues & Diagram

Use these visuals to pull extra context clues before answering each vocabulary question.

Pond habitat with frogs, fish, cattails, and rocks — Habitat picture: look for living things and where they get what they need.

Water cycle diagram showing evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection — Water cycle diagram: use arrows and labels to infer each science word meaning.

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habitat

A rabbit lives in a grassy field where it finds food and shelter. That field is its habitat.

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