Context Clues Vocabulary

an educated guess that is made based on clues combined with the reader's own experiences; read between the lines; hidden meaning.

• Inference

• Schema

• Textual Evidence

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

A word that means the opposite of another word.

• Antonym

• Synonym

• Observe

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Background knowledge and prior knowledge.

• Schema

• Context Clues

• Elaborate

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

The exact words from an author or a speaker.

• Textual Evidence

• Elaborate

• Quotation

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

Specific information from a text that supports the inference.

• Quotation

• Textual Evidence

• Inference

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

To look at something closely.

• Observe

• Elaborate

• Inference

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2E

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.L.6.2B

Clues that readers use to determine an unknown word or phrase.

• Context Clues

• Synonym

• Inference

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

A word that means the same or nearly the same thing as another word.

• Synonym

• Context Clues

• Antonym

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

To add details to something, to explain more fully.

• Schema

• Elaborate

• Observe

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C