Context Clues

What type of context clue provides readers with varying examples to allow them to fully examine the unfamiliar word?

• Explanation or Example Clue

• Definition or Statement Clue

• Antonym or Contrast Clue

• Synonym or Restatement Clue

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

What is the comparing word or similar term to the underlined word in the following sentence?

Jonna is fond of mountain-escapades in the same way that Patrick loves to go on beach adventures.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of context clue provides the meaning of unfamiliar words that can be inferred or guessed from the description of the situation?

• cause and effect or reason-result clue

• inference or general text clue

• explanation or example clue

• definition or statement clue

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

I returned to school soon after the war was over. The entire place, where the school used to be, was in ______.

• opportunity

• devastation

• necessary

• destroyed

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.2.4C

CCSS.L.3.2E

What type of context clue provides the synonyms of words to give the meaning of unfamiliar words?

• comparison clue

• definition or statement clue

• inference or general text clue

• synonym or restatement clue

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

The director felt remorse, or shame, for hiring some incompetent employees. What word from the sentence is a synonym for the underlined word, giving the definition?

• incompetent

• hiring

• shame

• director

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

We would be in a more permanent place once the buildings were rebuilt. The destruction was devastating, but despite the ____ around us, people went about picking up their lives.

• converse

• chaos

• world

• orderly

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Jonathan is gregarious, unlike his shy brother. What word in the sentence gives the antonym of the underlined word?

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

As a country in the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Philippines always experiences different natural calamities such as typhoons, earthquakes, and tsunamis. What type of context clue is used in the sentence?

• synonym or restatement clue

• comparison or sameness clue

• cause and effect clue

• explanation or example clue

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

The voracious team members ate one pizza each after the swim meet. Define voracious.

• funny

• satisfied

• starving

• sleepy

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4