Context Clues for Middle and High School Speech Therapy

by Hane Speech

Price: 450 points or $4.5 USD

Subjects: expressiveLanguage,receptiveLanguage

Grades: 6,7,8,9,10

Description: Teaching vocabulary is hard. Do you tackle it word-by-word, by subject, teach them strategies? I believe in the adage: give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. How does that tie into vocabulary? Well, I think that we should be teaching our students strategies to figure out word meanings, so that they can do it on their own. A lot of my students don't know how to use context clues and have no idea how to figure out a word's meaning from a sentence/paragraph. When they come across a word they don't know, they just skip over it, which really affects comprehension (especially if they don't know over half of the words). This evidence-based resource will help you target vocabulary and context clue goals effortlessly. Multiple studies on vocabulary development have found that students were able to retain and more quickly learn new vocabulary words when taught context clues strategies. This slide deck has 18+ content slides and covers context clue strategies, examples, and practice. Targets multiple goals at once: Vocabulary Context clues Inference Syntax Critical thinking And more! Vocabulary covered in resource: Edible, Melancholy, Endured, Hovered, Influence, Accomplished, Loathed, Beverage, Required, Grotesque, Gregarious, Century, Francophone, Gigantic, Independent, Declared, Modify, Serene, Confident, Adapt, Persisted, Fret, Contagious, Remedy