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A review game for context clues and main idea instruction

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What are context clues?

A strategy to define an unknown word.

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What is Main Idea?

What the story or article is mostly about.

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T/F: An inference is when we make a smart guess using information that we already know.

True.

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T/F: Characters are people, animals, or objects in a story.

True

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T/F: When you're reading, the word or idea that gets repeated over and over is the topic of the story.

True

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When using context clues, what is an example strategy?

When the author gives you examples of what the word means.

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T/F: When looking for the main idea, you should NOT look for the topic first.

False

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T/F: Setting is where the story happens.

True

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T/F: Sometimes the author explains the meaning of the word to you. This is called an example strategy.

True

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T/F: The main idea is ALWAYS found in the first paragraph of a story.

False.

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T/F: Characters have lots of differents feelings in a story.

True

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T/F: Synonyms and Antonyms are context clues strategies.

True

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T/F: When the author gives you an example of the word meaning, you may see these buzz words (like, for example, including, such as)

True

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T/F: Stories can have more than 1 character.

True

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