Context clues — English definition
Defined in 3 courses:
- Hints in the surrounding text — definitions, examples, contrasts, or synonyms — that help reveal an unfamiliar word's meaning. (English 8: Trust, Community & Responsibility)
- Hints in the surrounding text, such as definitions, examples, contrast, or synonyms, that help reveal an unfamiliar word's meaning. (English 9: Experience, Perspective & Inquiry)
- Hints in the surrounding text — a definition, an example, a contrast, or a synonym — that reveal an unfamiliar word's meaning. (English 10: Choices, Conscience & Consequences)
Where it is taught
- Vocabulary in Context — Language, Style & Conventions, English 8: Trust, Community & Responsibility, Grade 8
- Academic (Tier 2) Vocabulary — Language, Style & Conventions, English 9: Experience, Perspective & Inquiry, Grade 9
- Vocabulary in Context — Language, Style & Conventions, English 10: Choices, Conscience & Consequences, Grade 10
In use
Your two best tools for that are context clues and a word's own parts, and good readers switch between them flexibly depending on what the passage gives them.
Vocabulary in Context
' Instead you absorb them from reading, and the tool for that is context clues: the hints packed into the surrounding sentence.
Academic (Tier 2) Vocabulary
The first tool is context clues — the hints packed into the sentences around a hard word.
Vocabulary in Context