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SESSION 2 | Grades K-12 / ELL | Handout
Demystify context clues
Introduce types of clues authors provide
Help students determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
Teach students to look for clues before, after, and inside the word.
Apply context clues during reading
Tie the explicit teaching of context clues to the reading process.
Readers question & predict word meanings.
Literacy eLessons – Lesson 4:
Provide various experiences for practice
Add a vocabulary cartoon to your bell-ringer warm-ups or morning-work tasks.
Have students record incidental words they bump into and the clues that helped them.
Post words digitally with padlet.com | Example
Increase students’ awareness of context clues by teaching them to include definition details within their own writing using these lesson resources.
