Flexibility is key to contextual vocabulary strategies. Help your readers learn different types of context clues and become flexible to revise their ideas until they get to the right meaning of a word in context.
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Activity: Contextual Vocabulary Strategies
Standards
• Use context to define and confirm the meaning of a word.
• Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
Reader Goals
• I can use context clues to understand the meaning of a word.
Focus
• Definition clue
• Restatement clue
• Description clue
• Example clue
• Antonym clue