How do I

cope with
challenges
 Context Clues are hints
that an author gives to
help define a difficult or
unusual within a book. The
clue may appear within the
same sentence as the word
to which it refers or it may Five Types of Context
follow in the text sentence Clues:
1.Definition/Explanation
Clues
2.Restatement/Synonym
Clues
3.Contrast/Antonym Clues
4.Inference/General
Context Clues
5.Punctuation
 1. Definition/Explanation Clues-sometimes word’s or phrases is
explained immediately after its use.

2. Restatement/Synonym Clues-sometime hard words or phrases

is said in a simple way.

3. Contrast/Antonym Clues-sometimes words or phrases is

clarified by the presentation of the opposite meaning, somewhere
close to its use.
4. Inference/General Contrast Clues-sometimes words or phrases
is not immediately clarified within the same sentence.
Relationships, which are not directly apparent, are inferred or
implied.
5. Punctuation-readers can also use clues of punctuation and
type style to infer meaning, such as quotation marks, dashes,
parenthesis or brackets.
 Words o
r phras
that me es
ans Shut-Close
exactly
or near
ly Beautiful-Pretty
the sam
anothe e as Happy-joyful
r word
phrase or Hardworking-
in the
same la
nguage determined
. Bossy-controlling
Fair-just
Funny-humurous

SYNONYM
Fill each blank with a single letter to form these pairs of words
into synonyms.
Example: _ACTUAL _RUE
FACTUAL TRUE

1._COLD _HIDE
2._EARNING _RAVING
3._ALLY _CORE
4._AVER _ALTER
5._ROUND _OIL
6._ARROW _LENDER
7._LIMB _SCENT
8._TUMBLE _RIP
9._INDICATE _LEAR
10._WELLING _BODE