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Vocabulary – Context Clues
Help Year 3 students use context clues within a sentence to work out the meaning of unfamiliar words.
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Learning Intention
Students will use surrounding words and sentences to work out the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary.
Australian Curriculum
AC9E3LY05
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts.
Teacher Notes
Teach students to look for definition clues, synonym clues and example clues in the sentence before using a dictionary.
Skills Practised
- Using context clues
- Vocabulary development
- Inferring word meaning
- Reading comprehension