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Grade 3 (ages 8 to 9) · Reading

Working out word meaning from context

Be a word detective: use the clues in the surrounding words to work out what an unfamiliar word means, then check your guess

About three lessons of 40 to 50 minutes

Chalk illustration of a magnifying glass over one blank highlighted word slot, with honey-gold clue arrows from the surrounding blank words.
Word detective: A visual metaphor for using surrounding words to work out an unknown word.
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