Context Clues

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Context Clues
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Types of Context Clues

• Definition
• Synonyms/Antonyms
• Descriptions
• Text Features Clues

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Definitions

• The farrier, the man who makes shoes for the
  horses, had to carry his heavy tools in a
  wheelbarrow.

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Synonyms/Antonyms

• Unlike the peacock, the mudhen is not colorful.

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Descriptions

• Location or Setting
• The shaman entered the Hopi roundhouse and sat
• facing the mountains.
• How something is done
• He expectorated the gob of tobacco juice neatly
• into the spittoon.
• Action
• Swiveling his hips, waggling the club, and
  aiming for the pin, he drove his first four golf
  balls into the water.
• What something is used for
• He used the spade to dig up the garden.

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Text Features Clues

• Photographs charts, graphs, maps, illustrations

Marta wants to reheat the cold soup.
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This plastic bottle is unbreakable.