You are reading an informational text for English class, and you find a lot of words you don't know. Your teacher says you don't
need to look up all of them in the dictionary, only the ones you need to get the main point of the text. How could text features help you figure out which words to look up?
Context clues are clues in the text around a word that help you find a word's meaning.
For a simple example, if the text says:
'"Which building should we go to?" asked Tim.
"Let's go to my house!" exclaimed Bob.'
Let's say you don't know what the word "building" means. Using context clues, you can find out that a house is a type of building, and so you have an idea of what a building may be.
