Context Clues Challenge

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

• Explanation or Example Clue

• Antonym or Contrast Clue

• Definition or Statement Clue

• Synonym or Restatement Cue

In the sentence, Jonna is fond of mountain-escapade the same way with Patrick who goes on a beach adventure. What is the comparing word or similar term to the underlined word?

What type of context clue that 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

• Explanation or Example Clue

• Inference or General Text Clue

• Definition or Statement Clue

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

• opportunity

• necessary

• devastation

• destroyed

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

• Comparison or Sameness Clue

• Inference or General Text Clue

• Definition or Statement Clue

• Synonym or Restatement Clue

The director felt remorse, or shame, for hiring some incompetent employees. What other words from the sentence that give synonyms to the underlined word?

• incompetent

• shame

• hiring

• director

In your understanding, what is context clue?

My friends and I spent the first school day in tents. These were only temporary. We would be in a more permanent place once the buildings were rebuilt. Despite the _______ around us, people went about picking up their lives.

• converse

• world

• chaos

• orderly

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

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

• Cause-and-Effect or Reason-Result Clue

• Comparison or Sameness Clue

• Explanation or Example Clue