In this workbook, students read sentences with a difficult word underlined. They need to use context clues within the text to explain what the underlined word or phrase means.

For example, students will need to figure out what "apprehensive" is in the following sentence:

Katrina is apprehensive about many things; she is afraid of dogs, strangers, and spiders, and she dreads going to school.

To determine what "apprehensive" means in that sentence, you can look at the other words and clues around them. The sentence tells us that Katrina is afraid of dogs, strangers, and spiders, and she dreads going to school. All these things are connected to being scared or worried. So, when it says Katrina is "apprehensive," we can guess it means she feels scared, worried, or nervous about those things. Context clues are the surrounding words and ideas that help us understand what a tricky word might mean.