Context Clues
Context Clues
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How to understand new words using Context
Clues?
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FOUR TYPES OF CONTEXT
CLUES
1.Synonym / Restatement
2.Antonym / Contrast
3.Inference / General Context Clues
4.Definition / Explanation
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Types of Context Clues
Synonym /
Restatement
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Context clue: Synonyms / Restatement
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Context clue: Restatement / Synonyms
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Types of Context Clues
Antonym / Contrast
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Context clue: Antonym / Contrast
Let’s have an example: He tried to smile because the
mood of the party was not somber, but happy.
You know that somber must mean something that is
the opposite of happy. In fact, it means sad or dreary.
Inference / General
Context Clues
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Context Clues: Inference / General Context Clues
Let’s have an example:
She told her friend, “I’m through with blind dates forever. What a dull evening! I
was bored every minute. The conversation was absolutely vapid.”
The speaker was telling that she had a dull evening and that
she was bored at every minute of the conversation she had
with a friend.
The idiomatic phrase, "a free reign," can be defined by looking for clues
in the secondsentence.
The nurse wants the freedom to discipline the two children her way
because she has noticed how undisciplined they already are, and she is
determined to provide it all by herself.
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Context Clues: Inference/ General Context Clues
Let’s have an example:
Dementia almost overcame Lou when she stepped off the train at
Rainwater Ridge and felt as crazy as a Betsy bug as she realized how
different her new life would be.
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Types of Context Clues
Definition /
Explanation
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Context Clue: Definition / Explanation
Let’s have an example: (2)
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Why are context clues
important?
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To add on your ideas/answers, here are an
some additional …
Helps us define unfamiliar, difficult words in texts. They help us to
become better, perceptive readers.
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It’s activity
time!!!
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Exercise A: Determine the type of context clues used on the sentences.