Context Clues 1

What are context clues? words, phrases or pictures that help you understand what words mean the author's secret purpose the word you do not understand Context Clue Strategy #1 was ... ask a friend for help tell the teacheryou don't know read the next sentence and look for clues! Read the sentences. Use the clues to help you to determine the meaning of the bolded word.There are many nocturnal animals living around you. They come out when the sun sets to hunt, drink or find a place to live.What does the word nocturnal mean? animals that come out after the sun sets to hunt and eat animals that are all around us all day Read the sentences. Use the clues to help you to determine the meaning of the bolded word.Skunks are foragers. They do not stay in one place to capture their food so they move around the forest searching for things to eat.What does the word forager mean? stay in one place and capture food move around the forsest searching for food Skunks are Read the sentences. Use the clues to help you to determine the meaning of the bolded word.There are many creatures that are now extinct. Large dodo birds, wolly mammoths, and dinosaurs once lived on earth, but have now all died out.What does the word extinct mean? all died out to live on earth dodo bird and dinosaurs Read the sentences. Use the clues to help you to determine the meaning of the bolded word.If animals are going to survive in the wild, they need to adapt. Over time, animals change in ways that help them better survive in the environment around them.What does the word adapt mean? Animals are going to survive in the wild the environment around them to change in ways that help animals survive Read the sentences. Use the clues to help you to determine the meaning of the bolded word.There are Bigfoot believers and there are skeptics.These people question the world around them and do not easily believe Bigfoot stories.What does the word skeptic mean? a person who believes in Bigfoot a person who questions the world around them a person who tells Bigfoot stories Read the sentences. Use the clues to help you to determine the meaning of the bolded word.A man from the city nearby played a terrible hoax. He pretended to be Bigfoot while in his ape costume and scared people travelling in the woods.What does the word hoax mean? to pretend something is real his ape costume a man from the city nearby