Week 4 - Discussion 1 Context Clues

Context Clues

Before doing this, complete the Learning Activity for this week.

Read:

• Chapter 12: Contextual Word Recognition (pp. 185-198).

• Vocabulary Development During Read-Alouds: Primary Practices.

• Think-Alouds.

Context clues provide readers support for figuring out word meanings and comprehension. The chapter explains why context clues are important. It is important for you to teach your students how to use context clues. As such, you will be practicing how to model instructional practices in this forum.

First, you will pick a text that supports your chosen College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard for Reading (see Learning Activity). You can use a book, a short article, a news article, etc. The text must be appropriate for an early...