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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