Grade 2 · Reading · Lesson 6

Use Context Clues to Work Out Word Meanings

Good readers do not stop every time they meet an unfamiliar word — they look at the words around it to make a smart guess. Those helpful words and ideas are called context clues.

What this lesson teaches

1Use the words and ideas around an unfamiliar word as context clues
2Work out a reasonable meaning for an unfamiliar word
3Swap a guess back into the sentence to check that it makes sense

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