Teach them Context Clues | Mentoring in the Middle

Teach them Context Clues

context clues, reading strategies, interactive notebooks

Learning how to use clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words seems like it should be pretty easy.  I mean, authors often provide context clues right in the sentence.  But children who don't understand the process, often don't know what they're looking for.  And teaching them - specifically - what to look for helps them so much.  The more metacognitively aware our students are, the more they assimilate this kind of clue-searching into their daily reading.

There are a lot of ways to teach this concept, and no one system is right.  I've added a couple of anchor charts from Pinterest that I think are worth looking at; you can click on the links to read more.  You can also download this freebie, which uses the IDEAS acronym.
I=Inference
D=Definition
E=Example
A=Antonym
S=Synonym
Have a great week!

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