Life in an Old Log: Grade 2 Context Clues
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Life in an Old Log: Grade 2 Context Clues
Grade 2 context clues worksheet: a nonfiction text with science words to work out from the sentences around them, "Life in an Old Log". Work out what words such as habitat, shelter, decompose, and fungi mean, find the clue in the text, and answer 6 questions with evidence, with an answer key.
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Working Out New WordsA teaching handout to hand out before this sheet: the rule, worked examples and common mistakes.- Pages
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Work out what a new word means from the words and sentences around it: a definition, an example, a word with the same or opposite meaning, or a cause and effect.
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How to use this sheet
- Have the child underline the words around the new word that give clues.
- Have the child try their meaning in the sentence in place of the word and see if it makes sense.
- Look the word up after guessing, to check how close the guess was.
Common mistakes
- Guessing a meaning from what the word looks like, such as "fragile" means "frog".
- Using only the sentence with the word. The clue is often in the next sentence.
- Using the everyday meaning of a word that has a special meaning in a subject, such as "table" in math.
