CONTEXT CLUES

What type of context clue that provides readers with varying examples to allow them to fully examine the unfamiliar words?

• EXPLANATION/ Example Clue

• DEFINITION/ Statement Clue

• ANTONYM/ Contrast Clue

• SYNONYM/ Similar Clue

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

In the sentence, Joanna is fond of mountain-escapade the same way with Patrick who goes on a beach adventure.

What is the synonym or similar term to the underlined word?

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.5.5C

What type of context clue that provides the meaning of unfamiliar words that can be inferred or guessed from the description of the situation?

• Cause & Effect clue

• INFERENCE / reasoning

• EXPLANATION/ Example clue

• DEFINITION/ statement clue

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

I returned to school soon after the war was over. The entire place, where the school used to be, was in _____.

• opportunity

• devastation

• necessary

• unbroken

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.2.4C

CCSS.L.3.2E

What type of context clue that provides the synonyms of words to give the meaning of unfamiliar words?

• Comparison or Sameness Clue

• DEFINITION/ Statement Clue

• INFERENCE / reasoning Clue

• SYNONYMS/ Similar Clue

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

The director felt remorse, or shame, for hiring some incompetent employees.

What other words from the sentence that give synonyms to the underlined word?

• director

• shame

• hiring

• incompetent

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.5.5C

In your understanding, what is context clue?

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.5.4A

My friends and I spent the first school day in tents. These were only temporary. We would be in a more permanent place once the buildings were rebuilt. Despite the _______ around us, people went about picking up their lives.

• converse

• chaos

• world

• orderly

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Jonathan is gregarious, unlike his shy brother.

What word in the sentence that gives the antonym of the underlined word?

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

As a country in the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Philippines always experiences different natural calamities such as typhoons, earthquakes, and tsunamis.

What type of context clue is used in the sentence?

• SYNONYMS

• CAUSE & EFFECT

• COMPARISON

• EXAMPLE

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.5.4A