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When you are reading and come to an unfamiliar word take a moment to carefully study the surrounding words in the sentence or paragraph. These words can help you with the meaning of the unfamiliar word. There are four types of context clues authors use when writing. When you have mastered identifying and applying all four of the types frantically looking for your dictionary will be thing of the past.
A printable table of the four types of context clues, examples, and signals can be found at:
www.mc.cc.md.us/faculty/~steuben/public_html/vocabularycontext.htm
When you have familiarized yourself with the four types of context clues go back to the above website and click on Practice Vocabulary then you can test your knowledge! Here you will find 16 great sentences to help you practice your new skill.
Context Clue Guidelines can be found at these two great websites:
As you read for your classes this week use the context clues around the unfamiliar words to help you figure out the meaning. You may want to print out the four types to have handy from the above website!
- contributed by Kelley Kaunisto