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Context clues are key pieces of information that help a reader understand the meaning of a word without requiring them to look it up in a dictionary (Baumann, Edwards, Boland, Olejnik, & Kame’enui, 2003).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A context clue is typically found within the sentence that you are reading. If a sentence contains an unfamiliar word, there\u2019s a chance the reader will be able to infer the meaning of the word by looking at the surrounding text – or, the surrounding context<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Context Clue Example<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take this sentence: \u201cTeachers use pedagogy (for example, research-backed teaching strategies like differentiation) to help their students learn.\u201d Here, even if you don\u2019t know the word \u201cpedagogy\u201d you can use the context clues in brackets to infer that pedagogy probably means \u2018teaching methods\u2019 because some examples and synonyms were provided to help you to understand the concept.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Context Clue Definition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A context clue can be defined as a clue provided within a text that can help readers to infer meaning, even if they don\u2019t understand specific words within the paragraph.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re essential in the teaching of reading skills<\/a>, where teachers specifically model the use of context clues to assist readers in reading for meaning and comprehension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Context clues are heavily used in the whole language learning approach to teaching reading. While the whole langauge approach is widely seen as inferior to the phonics approach<\/a> (because children fundamentally need to learn words, their foundations, and how they\u2019re formed), context clues do remain one useful tool for meaning-making that is used by both children and adults when reading texts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Types of Context Clues<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

There are several types of context clues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n