This is a good slideshow for reviewing context clues and strategies for identifying types of context clues.

2. Four Types of Context Clues
• Details (inference)
• Synonyms (same meaning words)
• Antonyms (opposite meaning words)
• Rewording (definition)

3. Four Types of Context Clues
• Details (Inferencing): Clues are given within a
text to give you hints about a word’s meaning
• Example:
The parking lot was vacant. I hadn’t seen a
car pull into the lot in over three hours.
• What details help you determine the
meaning of the word?

4. Four Types of Context Clues
• Synonym: One or two words with the same
(or similar) meaning are found in the text
• Example:
Maggie was livid because Ashleigh was late
again for school. Every time Ashleigh isn’t
ready on time, Maggie gets mad because it
makes her late for work.
• What is the synonym for livid?

5. Four Types of Context Clues
• Antonym – Words that have a different (or
opposite) meaning are used as clues in the text
• Example:
Unlike Jessica, Becky is never punctual. Jessica
is always on time for her classes and
appointments.
• What clues let us know this is an antonym?
• What antonym is used in the text?

6. Four Types of Context Clues
• Rewording (Defining) – A brief explanation of
the meaning follows the difficult word.
• Example:
Isaiah’s sister is forlorn, or extremely
disappointed, because she didn’t pass her
Algebra exam.
• How is the difficult word reworded in the text?

7. Context Clues: Guided Practice
• On Saturday Guinevere was emphatic about
going to the mall with her friends, but
yesterday she sounded much less excited.
• The clue but lets you know that emphatic is
an antonym for excited.
Antonym

8. Context Clues: Guided Practice
• Ms. Wright often commends her teachers
and staff, or gives praise to them for a job
well done.
• The context clues gives praise to them are
rewording and defining the meaning of
commends.
Rewording/Defining

9. Context Clues: Guided Practice
• The ground was desolate. There were no
plants, and it hadn’t rained in weeks.
• The context clues ground, no plants and
hadn’t rained in weeks help you infer the
meaning of desolate.
Details/Inference

10. Context Clues: Guided Practice
• Ms. Zayas wrote Joseph up for being
insubordinate. She had warned him several
times about being disrespectful to her in
class.
• We use our clues to see that disrespectful
has the same (or similar) meaning to
insubordinate.
Synonym

11. Now time for…
Independent Practice