Context Clues Passages

How can context clues improve your overall reading comprehension?

• By providing hints to understand unfamiliar words or phrases within a text.

• By skipping over difficult passages

• By ignoring the tone of the text

• By reading the conclusion first

Identify the context clue in the following sentence: 'The dog barked loudly, alerting everyone in the neighborhood.'

• quietly

• loudly

• noisily

• silently

Read the paragraph and identify the context clue that helps you understand the meaning of the word 'perplexed': 'Sarah was perplexed by the complicated math problem, but after rereading the instructions, she finally understood how to solve it.'

• complicated math problem

• clear instructions

• easy solution

• simple math problem

Things in a text that help a reader figure out the definition of an unknown word

• Connotation

• Context Clues

• Figurative Meaning

• Diction

Which of the following is NOT a strategy that you should use to determine the meaning of a word that you don't know?

• break the word apart (use word mapping)

• try substitution

• look for evidence in the text (context clues)

• make an inference

• draw a picture of the word

If a question asks you to determine the meaning of a specific word, what should you do?

• find the word in the text and underline it

• read the sentence that the word is in and look for any clues that the author provides

• try substituting the answer choices in place of the word in context and see if any of them make sense

• guess the meaning of the word using background knowledge only

How can context clues improve your overall reading comprehension?

• By providing hints to understand unfamiliar words or phrases within a text.

• By skipping over difficult passages

• By ignoring the tone of the text

• By reading the conclusion first

Identify the context clue in the following sentence: 'The dog barked loudly, alerting everyone in the neighborhood.'

• quietly

• loudly

• noisily

• silently

Read the paragraph and identify the context clue that helps you understand the meaning of the word 'perplexed': 'Sarah was perplexed by the complicated math problem, but after rereading the instructions, she finally understood how to solve it.'

• complicated math problem

• clear instructions

• easy solution

• simple math problem

Things in a text that help a reader figure out the definition of an unknown word

• Connotation

• Context Clues

• Figurative Meaning

• Diction