Context Clues
A hint found within a sentence, paragraph, or passage that a reader can use to understand the meanings of new or unfamiliar words.
What is a context clue?
A sentence begins with a _______ _________.
What is a capital letter?
What the author is trying to teach you.
What is main message?
This is how many points you get for being on time.
What is 5 points?
This teacher teaches 3rd Grade ELA.
Who is Mr.Hawkins?
Synonym is a word that means the ____ as another word.
What is same?
A sentence ends with a _________ mark.
What is punctuation?
A part of the main message, but is not the main idea.
Hint: It happens in the story.
What is a detail?
What is 2 points?
This teacher helps 2nd and 3rd grade during the day.
Who is Ms.K?
Synonym, example and _____________ are three types of context clues.
What is definition?
A paragraph is a group of ____ that has one topic.
What are sentences?
My coat is blue and red; it has a green zipper.
The words "blue","red" and "green zipper" are all ____ ______ of the topic.
What are key details?
This bonus gets you one point.
Hint: __________ makes the dream work!
What is teamwork?
This teacher teaches art at PS7.
Who is Ms.Miller?
This is when we use context clues.
What is when we are looking for a new phrase?
The first sentence of a paragraph gets this special spacing called ______.
What is an indent?
The zoo is the best place to go for a fieldtrip. The zoo has many different animals that you can observe in their natural habitats. You can learn a lot about the animals at the zoo. There is also food at the zoo in case you get hungry while you are there. The zoo is big so there is plenty of room to move and play. We should go to the zoo on fieldtrips more often.
This is the main message.
What is the zoo is the best place to go for a fieldtrip?
This is the percentage you need to earn for the incentive.
What is 80%?
This staff member is the principal of the school.
Who is Ms.Leary?
The fox is timid. He is like a little mouse that hides.
Timid means this.
What is shy?
This might help your reader understand and introduce what you are talking about in your story/text.
What is a title?
The _____ of a story is supposed to teach you how to be a better person. This could also be the main message in a story.
What is moral?
The ability to get through difficulties and hard times.
Hint: Ms.K's favorite bonus to give!
What is resilience?
This staff member does her best to keep our school clean.
Who is Ms.Janet?