Strategies
When reading your questions, mark out answers that make no sense.
What is Process of Elimination?
Sometimes the author defines the word for the reader soon after it is used in a sentence.
What are Definition Clues?
I know it, I get it, I got it.
What is Understanding?
The sun was low in the sky. Everyone was packing up and getting ready to go home because the park would close at dusk.
Based on the context clues given, what does dusk mean?
A. Dawn B. Sunset C. Midnight
What is B. Sunset?
Pictures can help give context for an unknown word, phrase, or what the text is about.
True or False
What is True?
Clues that can help me find my answer.
(Hint: There are more than 3)
What are Pictures, Helping Words, Words you know, Definitions and Examples, Synonyms and Antonyms?
Mom spent all day working in the garden. She felt weary and just wanted to go to bed.
What does weary mean?
A. Tired
B. Sick
C. Annoyed
What is A. Tired?
A part of a sentence made up of a few words.
or
A group of words does not have to be a full sentence.
What is a Phrase?
When I go on vacation, I like to go shopping and bring home souvenirs for my friends.
Based on the sentence and your knowledge of Context Clues, what does souvenirs mean?
What is a gift?
What is a keepsake?
What is an item used to remember a place?
She is cautious crossing the street; she is also careful when riding her bike.
Identify the synonym in the sentence.
What is careful?
Something I can do to my questions so the important parts stand out.
What is Underlining Key Words?
Sometimes the author includes examples to explain the meaning of a word.
Words that have similar or same meaning.
Kiera and her friends were building a clubhouse. They were using Keira’s old tree house and fixing it up. They were pulling up buckets of supplies so they could get to work. If they didn’t pull up the bucket gradually, or slowly, everything would spill out of the bucket.
What type of clue was given?
When Sara was hiking, she accidentally walked through a patch of brambles, which are prickly vines and shrubs.
What type of clue was given?
What is Definition?
When looking for an answer to a question, I should always go back to the _________.
What is the text?
What is the passage?
Please be careful with that vase, it is quite fragile.
What word in the sentence could help you find the meaning of the word fragile?
What does fragile mean?
What is careful?
What is easily broken?
Words that have opposite meaning.
What are Antonyms?
Jase was being rude to his sister after school one day. His mother asked him not to make remarks such as “You’re ugly”, “Your clothes don’t match”, and “You get on my nerves.”
What type of clue was given?
In the past month, we have had almost every type of precipitation, including rain, snow, sleet and hail.
How could we define precipitation and what are the examples of it?
What is a substance that falls from the sky to the ground?
What are rain, snow, sleet, and hail?
Good readers don't have to know every word or be able to read fast. Good readers do what?
It was the first day of school and I had my zeetee with me. It was packed full and heavy to carry. My mom filled it with a drink, a sandwich, and grapes. She even put a cookie in my zeetee for desert. An icepack kept the food in my zeetee cold. I opened up my zeetee as soon as we go to the cafeteria. LUNCH!!!!!
What is a zeetee?
What is a Lunchbox?
Definition of a word. What the word means...
What is meaning?
She thinks the house is valuable, but this is incorrect. The house is worthless.
What word in the sentence is an antonym for the word worthless?
She made a mistake writing her essay, she then had to erase it all and rewrite it.
What do you think rewrite means?
What is the Prefix for the word?
What is to write again?
What is Re-?