About This Worksheet
This Grade 7 Language Arts worksheet helps students understand how the same noun can carry different meanings in different sentences. Students study words such as strike, charge, and draft and use context to decide what each bold word means. They then match the words with definitions and create original examples showing two meanings of one noun. For example, strike can describe a missed baseball pitch or a work stoppage organized by employees.
Learning Goals
The main goal is to help students recognize and explain multiple-meaning nouns. Students should already know how to use nearby details as context clues. This activity moves them toward comparing different meanings of the same spelling and choosing the correct definition for each use. It supports CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.7.4 and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.7.5, which focus on context, multiple-meaning words, and word relationships.
Student Tasks
On this worksheet, students will read six sentences containing the nouns strike, charge, and draft. They will explain what each bold word means in its particular sentence. Next, students match three additional examples with definitions such as a first version of writing, a work stoppage, and an electrical power level. The final section asks them to choose one noun and write two sentences that clearly show different meanings.
Common Challenges
Some students may apply the most familiar meaning of a word to every sentence. Others may understand the meaning from context but struggle to explain it in their own words. The words can also function as verbs in other situations, which may distract students from their noun use here. Encourage learners to look for the surrounding topic, such as baseball, labor, electricity, law, weather, or writing.
Teaching Suggestions
A teacher can place one word in the center of a web and add its different meanings around it. Students can then connect each meaning to a short example sentence. At home, a parent can read one sentence without the bold word and ask which meaning would fit the blank. This helps students rely on context instead of memorizing one definition.
Worksheet Features
The worksheet combines sentence analysis, definition matching, and original writing. Three high-use multiple-meaning nouns appear in several realistic situations. The final task requires students to prove understanding by creating two distinct contexts of their own. This page works well for vocabulary development, context-clue practice, noun study, or a short assessment.