Context and Word Parts as Clues

Determining the meaning of an unfamiliar or multiple-meaning word in Grade 3, including a word relevant to a grade 3 topic in an informational text, starts with the surrounding sentence as a context clue. When a known affix is added to a word you already know, like agreeable becoming disagreeable, figuring out the new word's meaning is a related skill, and so is using a known root word, like company, as a clue to an unfamiliar word that shares that same root, like companion.

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