Context Clues Passages

Context Clues Passages

7th Grade

12 Qs

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Context Clues Passages

Context Clues Passages

Assessment

Quiz

English

7th Grade

Hard

CCSS
RI.7.4, L.6.6, L.6.4A

+19

Standards-aligned

Created by

Sarah Williams

FREE Resource

12 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 2 pts

How can context clues improve your overall reading comprehension?

By providing hints to understand unfamiliar words or phrases within a text.

By skipping over difficult passages

By ignoring the tone of the text

By reading the conclusion first

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 2 pts

Identify the context clue in the following sentence: 'The dog barked loudly, alerting everyone in the neighborhood.'

quietly

loudly

noisily

silently

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 2 pts

Read the paragraph and identify the context clue that helps you understand the meaning of the word 'perplexed': 'Sarah was perplexed by the complicated math problem, but after rereading the instructions, she finally understood how to solve it.'

complicated math problem

clear instructions

easy solution

simple math problem

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Things in a text that help a reader figure out the definition of an unknown word

Connotation

Context Clues

Figurative Meaning

Diction

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following is NOT a strategy that you should use to determine the meaning of a word that you don't know?

break the word apart (use word mapping)

try substitution

look for evidence in the text (context clues)

make an inference

draw a picture of the word

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

6.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

If a question asks you to determine the meaning of a specific word, what should you do?

find the word in the text and underline it

read the sentence that the word is in and look for any clues that the author provides

try substituting the answer choices in place of the word in context and see if any of them make sense

guess the meaning of the word using background knowledge only

Tags

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

How can context clues improve your overall reading comprehension?

By providing hints to understand unfamiliar words or phrases within a text.

By skipping over difficult passages

By ignoring the tone of the text

By reading the conclusion first

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

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