Description

This colourful set of 32 Context Clues Tasks Cards helps students to use clues when reading to understand the meaning of unknown words. Print and laminate these context clues task cards for regular use!

These semantics activities align with the Science of Reading (SoR) and are a practical addition to your structured literacy programme.

Activities link directly to the New Zealand and Australian Literacy Learning Progressions, This resource pack is suitable for both US and British spellings.

This set of 32 Context Clues Tasks Cards features:

The first 12 task cards require students to find the meaning of the underlined word using context clues.
The next 4 task cards require students to find the meaning of the underlined word using definition context clues.
The next 4 task cards require students to find the meaning of the underlined word using synonym context clues.
The next 4 task cards require students to find the meaning of the underlined word using antonym context clues.
The next 4 task cards require students to find the meaning of the underlined word using example context clues.
The final 4 task cards require students to fill in the gap in the sentence using context clues.
Student recording sheet
Answers
Context Clues definition poster
Types of Context Clues definition poster

Why Teach Context Clues and other aspects of Semantics?

The meanings of words and the relationships of words are referred to as semantics. A reader’s breadth and depth of vocabulary contribute to reading achievement.

As the primary goals of reading and writing are determining and communicating meaning, it is important for students to understand the meanings of words and how words function in sentences.
As the majority of words in English have multiple meanings or shades of meaning, it is necessary for the reader to be flexible in determining the author’s intended meaning of a word within a sentence.
Semantics is one of the six evidence-based components of structured literacy.
Semantics (language structures) is one of the strands of Scarborough’s Reading Rope, which looks at the elements that make a skilled reader.