Context Clues

Jaki is a wonderful piano player. But Emily is more VERSATILE; she sings, acts, paints and writes poetry, and also plays the piano. What does the word VERSATILE mean?

• many abilities
• boring
• not skilled
• exciting

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

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in red.
When he didn’t understand the instructions, the student asked the teacher to clarify them.

• remove
• call
• explain

They were ecstatic at the birth of their baby. They couldn't stop smiling for days. 

Based on the context clues in the sentence, ecstatic means:

• Nervous
• Discouraged
• Excited
• Relieved

Many Northern birds migrate for the winter.  They return in the spring.

Based on context clues in the passage, migrate means _____________.

• Lay eggs
• Eat
• Move away
• Sing

The lost campers sweltered in the heat of the desert sun.

• ate
• burned 
• slept 
• sunbathed

Everyone thought Steven was a genius because he got a perfect score on all of his homework and test in school.

• brain

• idiot

• inability

• Smart person

Rebecca did not know what was behind the door her curiosity made her open the door to find out.

• Guessing

• Animal at the circus

• Desire to know something

• disinterest

Don't bring your drinks into the chemistry lab, you will contaminate the science experiments of the soda

• clean

• fix

• improve

• Make dirty

The chewing gum plummeted to the ground when he splat it out from the 5th floor window.

• ascend

• shoot up

• fell

• raise