Context Clues Lesson: Overall Meaning & Word Position, Grades 5-7

Real reading rarely hands students a signal word. This lesson is for the sentence that has none. Students learn to ask two questions of any unknown word: what role does it play in its sentence (a thing, an action or a describing word), and what is the whole paragraph about? Put the two together and you have a good guess; swap it in and reread to check.

What's inside

• 16 slides, with speaker notes on all 16
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Student worksheet, 3 pages
• Answer key, 1 page
• All printables in one ready-to-print PDF, 6 pages

Answer key included

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