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Context clues are hints or definitions that a writer uses in the text to help the reader understand the meaning of new or unfamiliar words. These clues can appear within a sentence, a paragraph, or in other areas of a passage. Want to learn more about Context Clues? Here’s a refresher on the different types of context clues.
Saturdays were Millie’s favorite day of the week. That’s the day she got to visit Grandma and Grandpa’s farm. Millie loved to pick wildflowers and play with the piglets. She also liked to help choose vegetables for the lunch salad. There was one part of the farm that Millie did not…
Saturday is laundry day at Diana’s house. Diana was working on sorting socks by matching their colors and sizes. “What’s this?” Dad asked. He was holding a small piece of green rubber. Diana looked up. “That’s my balloon from the circus!” Diana remembered her magical flight above the town square,…
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. “Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” This is the full text of the 19th Amendment to the…
People all over the world watch the Olympic Games on TV, cheer on their nations’ athletes, and get into the spirit of friendly international competition. Yet how many people know how these games came about and why they were created? Why is there an Olympic torch? What does the flag…
Tiegan and Jonas lived in a small town near the beach. Every summer, the ice cream stand opened back up. On the first day, Tiegan and Jonas would always get two small ice cream cones. The ice cream stand had many flavors, and it was often hard for Tiegan to…
This amusing poem about a baseball game was written in 1888. ——————————- It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville nine that day: The score stood four to six with just an inning left to play; And so, when Cooney died at fi rst, and Burrows did the same, A pallor…
In the novel Little Men, Josephine “Jo” March has married Mr. Bhaer. They have a school for boys in their home called Plumfield. In this passage, Nat has joined the school. He is a poor boy whose parents died. Nat has been living on the street, playing music to make…
On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot by an assassin at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. He died the next day. Lincoln died just days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, essentially ending the American Civil War. Lincoln’s assassination stunned and…
Robert Louis Stevenson, a native of Scotland, took a train trip from New York to San Francisco in 1879. This is from the beginning of his trip. —————————————————– Tuesday.-When I awoke, it was already day; the train was standing idle; I was in the last carriage, and, seeing some others…
Dad and Madison were walking through the party store, gathering decorations for Madison’s upcoming birthday party. Even though Madison was a twin, she and her sister Ella always had separate birthday parties for their classmates. “But I don’t want to invite Lucy Gilbert!” “We already discussed this. You are inviting…
