Context Clues- Spring 2019

My grandmother gave me my blepice when I was a baby. Everyone in my family has their own blepice. We each hang ours by our stairs at Christmas because we don’t have a fireplace.

Using context clues, we know a blepice is...

• a pencil

• a stocking

• a blanket

• an ornament

When you play in the snow, you should wear gloves, a hat, and a margle. You need the margle to keep your neck warm. I am lucky because my grandma knitted me a margle for my birthday.

Using context clues, we know a margle is...

• a pair of pants

• a book

• a cell-phone

• a scarf

Emilia threw a giant grimble at me. I was not expecting it! But I found a hiding place with a good pile of snow. I ducked down and made five grimbles. When she walked by, I attacked! After she wiped the snow off her face, we both laughed and went inside to drink hot chocolate.

Using context clues, we know a grimble is...

• a stick

• a snowball

• a ball

• a bat

A holiday tradition in my family is when we decorate our Christmas tree. My mother has collected many special hambets. Her hambets are glass and very delicate. My favorite hambet is a gold star with glitter all over it. She lets me hang it myself. My sister’s favorite hambet is a glass angel.

Using context clues, we know a hambet is...

• a plant

• an ornament

• a blanket

• a cookie

My favorite glingle is a girl named Liselle. I have known her since we were only 2 years old. There are a lot of reasons why she is such a good glingle. The main reason is that she is nice and she always loves to play fun things. I hope she will be my glingle forever!

By using context clues, we know a glingle is...

• a friend

• a dog

• a book

• a teacher

On Valentine’s Day, I made my mom a card with a bloggle in it. I cut the bloggle out of paper and decorated it with red glitter. At first, I did not know how to make a bloggle but then my sister showed me that you can draw one side of it on a folded piece of paper then you cut the bloggle out and then open it up.

Using context clues, we know a bloggle is...

• a hat

• a heart

• a pencil

• a tree

A lot of people think it is weird that I do not like malabling. On holidays like Halloween or Valentine’s Day, there is so much malabling around me but I don’t touch it because I prefer sour candy.

By using context clues, we know malabling is...

• pencils

• carrots

• chocolate

• hair

Did you know I am obsessed with rocktlat? I love to use it to decorate cards and projects I make. I love it because it is so sparkly and shiny. For Valentine’s Day, I made a card with red and pink sparkly rocktlat. After I use it, I always have little pieces of rocktlat on my face!

By using context clues, we know a rocklat is...

• flowers

• paper

• cats

• glitter

Today is the perfect day to go to the beach. “Don’t forget the qualiwag” said my mom. “Ugg” I grumbled. I can’t stand putting qualiwag on because it always gets into my eyes and stings. My mom must have known what I was thinking because then she asked, “putting on the qualiwag is better than a sunburn isn’t it?” She is right about that.

From using context clues, we know that a qualiwag is...

• a sweatshirt

• sunscreen

• water

• a necklace

Last summer, Maggie learned how to garbler when she went to the beach on summer vacation with her family. She saved up her money to pay for garblering lessons and she rented a garbler board and a wetsuit.

By using context clues, we know that garblering is...

• knitting

• running

• surfing

• swimming