Context Clues

By Ellen Weber

7 years, 3 months ago , Age: 1+

Designed to use with the story Snowmen At Night by Caralyn Buehner, this lesson teaches using picture and text clues to determine word meanings, as well as that ever-popular strategy "Does that make sense?"
Updated 2/24/15

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