Context Clues
This is the reason authors include synonyms in a text — they help readers figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words by providing words with similar meanings
What is to use context clues to understand new vocabulary?
One way a reader can relate a story to personal experiences, feelings, or memories to better understand it.
What is a text-to-self connection?
Give an example of a controlling idea in a sentence.
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These types of texts combine words, images, sounds, and other media, making the content more interesting and easier to understand for readers
What is because they use multiple modes to capture attention and enhance understanding?
This is a brief explanation or description that accompanies a photo, illustration, or diagram, helping the reader understand what they are looking at and how it relates to the text.
What is a caption, and it is important because it explains and clarifies graphic features for better understanding?
This type of context clue uses opposite words or contrasting ideas to help readers understand the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
What is an antonym or contrast context clue?
This type of connection happens when a reader relates the story they are reading to another story, book, movie, or article they have read or seen.
What is a text-to-text connection?
This explains the difference: one tells you what the text is about in general, and the other tells you the author’s main point or opinion about that topic.
What is a topic tells what the text is about, and a controlling idea tells the author’s main point about the topic?
This type of text exists online or on electronic devices and can include videos, websites, blogs, or e-books.
What is a website, blog, e-book, or online article?
These list markers organize information into short, easy-to-read points, making key ideas stand out and easier for readers to understand quickly.
What is bullet points break information into clear, concise pieces for easier comprehension?
In this sentence, the context clues help the reader know that inspect means ‘to look at closely’:
Before buying the used car, Maria decided to inspect it carefully, checking every seat, tire, and button.
What is using example and detail context clues to understand that inspect means to look at closely?
This type of connection occurs when a reader relates a story or information to real-world events, issues, or situations outside of their personal experience.
What is a text-to-world connection?
This is why authors need to clearly state their controlling idea — it helps readers understand the main point and follow the supporting details in the text
What is to guide the reader and make the text easier to understand?
In a multimodal text, this type of media helps convey information, emphasize ideas, and make the content more engaging for the reader.
What is visual media provides images, graphics, or videos to support understanding and engagement?
These text features divide content into sections and help readers quickly identify the main topics and organize information.
What is headings and subheadings guide the reader and organize the text for easier understanding?
This is how a reader can figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word by looking at the sentences around it for hints, explanations, or examples.
What is by using context clues from surrounding sentences to infer the word’s meaning?
This is the way that relating a story to your own experiences, other texts, or the world can help you better understand characters, events, and themes.
What is by deepening understanding and making the story more meaningful?
This shows how the controlling idea influences an essay — it determines what supporting details, examples, and evidence are included to explain or prove the main point.
What is it organizes and shapes the essay’s content around the main point?
These texts are read on electronic devices and often include interactive features, multimedia elements, and hyperlinks, unlike traditional print texts which are static and only use written words and images.
What is digital texts use multimedia and interactivity, while print texts are static and rely on only words and images?
This refers to how the arrangement of text, images, spacing, and other design elements on a page affects how easily a reader can follow and understand the information
What is the layout influences readability by organizing content clearly and making it easier to navigate
These are words or phrases in a text that give hints or explanations to help you figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
What are context clues?
This type of connection happens when a reader relates events, characters, or situations in a story to their own personal experiences or feelings.
What is a text-to-self connection
This is the central idea or message that an author wants readers to understand or take away from a text.
What is the controlling idea?
These are the elements that make a text multimodal, including the combination of words, images, audio, video, and interactive components to communicate meaning.
“What are the use of multiple modes such as text, visuals, audio, and interactivity to convey information?
These elements include captions, headings, subheadings, bullet points, diagrams, charts, and images that work together to make information easier to understand and navigate.
What are the graphic features that organize and clarify information for the reader?