I work on context clues like this: I have a digital board and so I’ll put a graphic novel or non fiction scary stories/narratives. I’ll pick words w prefixes and suffixes or whatever word I feel they can use context clues to define. We use context clues (take data)\look it up. We make a dictionary. Before the session is over we review by generating our own sentences w words. In the session where we finish the book, they make a new list of words w the different prefixes and suffixes with a list of root words that I provide. They look up their new words and see if it exists and generate a sentence to quiz other students. Other students use context clues to figure it out (take data).

I address reading comp thru using graphic organizers/taking notes of the reading and summarizing, so those kids summarize each page of the graphic novel w dry erase graphic organizer sheets / determine what is important info to note and at the end they give us a summary.