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Context Clues

Context Clues

Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word • Five animals

Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word • Five animals were grazing on the new lettuce in my garden! "Mama!" I called. "Come see what's in our yard!" Mama hurried over to the window and gasped. "Sonia, those animals are deer,

Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word • I remember

Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word • I remember reading a few months back about an organization that rescues and relocates animals that are stranded or injured. A fox had been hit by a car but wasn't badly hurt. This outfit took it in until it healed and then found a new home for it far from busy streets.

Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word • Are you

Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word • Are you sure you'll be warm enough, Sonia? " she asked. "I' m sure, I said. We sat silently together, admiring the deer.

Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word • We've built

Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word • We've built towns and highways where there were once forests and streams. Now there is very little habitat left for the deer. There is no easy solution. Timeline

Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word • A few

Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word • A few days later, Papa got a call from Carl. One of the does had given birth to two fawns! And Carl had found a home for all seven deer in a wooded area northwest of the city.

Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word • Camilla was

Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word • Camilla was always worried about what other people thought of her. Today she was fretting even more than usual. It was the first day of school.

Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word • “I have

Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word • “I have no money, but I will give you this fine gold watch if you give me enough wool from your sheep to make a coat. The farmer said, “What a good idea! But you will have to wait until spring when I shear my sheep’s winter wool.

Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word • Anna and

Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word • Anna and her mother took the bag of wool to an old woman who had a spinning wheel. “Anna needs a new coat , ”Anna’ s mother told the woman. I have no money, but I will give you this beautiful lamp if you will spin this wool into yarn.

Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word • I will

Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word • I will be happy to weave your yarn. Come back in two weeks. ” When Anna and her mother returned, the weaver gave them a bolt of beautiful red cloth.

Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word • Long ago,

Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word • Long ago, when the eagles still build their nests on the cliffs by the river, an old man and his grandson stood beside a large rock. The rock stood all by itself on the bluff at the bend in the river where the bright water flowed to the bitter sea.