Context Clues 81

Context Clues

Context Clues

• When you come across a word you do not knnow in your reading, look for clues.

• Example: Because many animals eat rabbits, the number of wild rabbits has decreased.

Look at the words postion in the sentence

Ex.) Brown bears are solitary animals and are often found alone.

Use the sentence to help

Leaders often faced fierce opposition, such as name-calling, disrespect, and even threats of harm.

Open Ended

Use the Green context clue to help you figure out the meaning of the red word.

Marsupials are mammals that carry their young in pouches.

What type of animal is a Marsupial?

Open Ended

Use the Green context clue to help you figure out the meaning of the red word.

Although many animals move quickly to escape danger, the oppossum collapses and pretends to be dead.

What does collapse mean?

Open Ended

Which context cluen helps you understand the meaning of resemblance?

Pangolians have a physical Resemblance, or likeness, to an armadillo, with claws and armored bodies.

Multiple Choice

What does the word critical mean in the sentence?

Because they lack teeth, eatoing tiny stones with their food is critical for digestion.

• safe

• possible

• necessary

• imaginable

Multiple Choice

Womens suffarge organization faced determined resistance from groups who argued that a woman's place was in the home, not the political arena.

• opposition

• agreement

• questions

• approval

Multiple Choice

What does the word deplored mean in the paragraph?

Plenty of woman strongly agreed that they deserved more rights. Yet many deplored the idea of women having a voice in the government.

• failed to understand

• disapproved of

• agreed with

• investigated