Volume 2, Edition 3 – Context Clue Strategies

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing best practices for teaching students to utilize context clues in their reading.

Using context clues to decipher unfamiliar words is an important vocabulary skill for any student. In an article from The Reading Teacher adapted from Valerie Ellery’s Creating Strategic Readers, activities and best practices are given for teaching context clues.

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