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

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

• quietly

• loudly

• noisily

• silently

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

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

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

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

• Connotation

• Context Clues

• Figurative Meaning

• Diction

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

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

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

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

Tags

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

CCSS.L.9-10.1.C

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

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

• quietly

• loudly

• noisily

• silently

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

• Connotation

• Context Clues

• Figurative Meaning

• Diction

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4