Context Clues
Hints in the sentence that help you figure out what a word means. Look at the words around the tricky word.
What is Context Clues?
Words that don’t mean exactly what they say—they make writing more fun or creative.
What is Figurative Language?
What the author believes or wants you to believe. It’s the main point the author is trying to prove in nonfiction writing.
What is Author's Claim?
How a character sees, thinks, and feels about what is happening in the story.
What is Character Perspective?
Means how a character reacts to something that happens in the story.
What is Character Response?
Name one type of context clue.
What is definition clues, synonym clues, antonym clues, punctuation clues, or inference clues?
Compares using “like” or “as” (e.g., “as fast as lightning”)
What is Simile?
What is the purpose of an author's claim?
What is to share a main idea or point of view about something?
What they believe, know, and feel based on their own experiences?
What is Character’s Point of View?
Includes the character’s feelings, actions, and words after an event, problem, or challenge.
What is Character's Response?
How can you find context clues in a sentence?
What is look for words and phrases around the unknown word that help you understand its meaning?
Says one thing is another (e.g., “Time is a thief.”)
What is Metaphor?
How does an author's claim differ from a fact?
What is a claim is an opinion, while a fact is something that can be proven true?
A person or animal in a story.
What is a character?
What does "character response" mean?
What is how a character in a story reacts or behaves to a particular situation or event?
Why are pictures helpful for context?
What is to provide visual representations of concepts?
Gives human traits to something not human (e.g., “The wind whispered.”)
What is Personification?
What does it mean to support a claim?
What is to provide reasons or evidence that help justify or prove the claim?
The way a character sees and understands the world.
What is perspective?
How does a character's response affect the story?
What is to directly influence the story's plot, character development, and overall impact?
How do context clues help you understand a story?
What is looking at the sentences before and after unknown word, words nearby, to figure out its meaning?
Uses extreme exaggeration to make a point or emphasize something.
What is Hyperbole?
Why is it important to understand an author's claim?
What is to help readers critically analyze the text and form their own opinions?
By looking at their thoughts, feelings, and actions in the story.
What is how can I tell a character's perspective?
Why is understanding character responses important?
What is helping them grasp the characters' traits, motivations, and feelings?