Context Clues

What Acronym helps us to remember the different types of context clues?

• Dab on Em
• SAID
• TGIF
• MDITBTE

When you are reading and come to an unknown word, what should you do first?

• Look for clues in the sentence
• Ask your teacher
• Look it up in the dictionary
• Skip it

What do you call a word that has the opposite meaning of another word? 

• Explanation
• Synonym
• Antonym
• Homonym

Context Clues are important because..

• they help to define unknown words in the text.
• they help us become better readers.
• Ms. Drewery and Ms. Cartwright want us to know it.
• they tell what the passage is about.

An inference is best described as a/an

• idea
• answer
• word
• educated guess