Use Short, But Challenging Texts
Short texts allow students to finish the reading process, apply their skills, and receive feedback. Context clues task cards that are written at a higher reading level than students’ independent ranges are perfect.
For 1st-2nd grade, students should be practicing with segmented texts at reading levels 3-5. A shared reading is the ideal instructional format because the teacher shares the decoding responsibility with the students, but they carry the responsibility of comprehension.
In grades 3-6, students should also be reading context clues task cards written at levels 5-8. Why? The texts bring the challenge, yet the segmenting and targeted questioning provide the scaffolding.
Informational Texts are Challenging
A properly prepared context clues task card will provide plenty of complex text that reaches across different curriculum areas. Students receive the additional benefit of building content area background knowledge.
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Provide Context Clues Practice Across Genres
Make practice meaningful by applying context clues strategies in poetry, fiction, and interpreting figurative language. Poetry is perfect for practice because of the context clues are concise.
Context clues in fictional texts are different than those in informational texts. Figurative language (similes, metaphors, idioms) provide an additional challenge because of the amount of interpreting needed.
Task Cards Scaffold Cognitive Resources
If you continue to use segmented texts in resources like task cards, students will be able to focus on context.
Why?
Less cognitive load is dedicated to maintaining meaning across a longer text. The shorter text opens working memory. Working memory is devoted to the skill of using context clues.
View a variety of context clues task cards that can easily scaffold your students’ success!
We offer task cards that address a variety of genres and types of context clues for grades2-6.
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- vocabulary development,
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