100 Task Cards: Context Clues

by Carol Ghiglieri, Carol Ghiglieri

Give students the strategies they need to determine the meaning of new words encountered in text without turning to a dictionary!



Each reproducible card contains a high-interest mini-passage and five key questions to hone this must-know skill―in just ten minutes a day. Cards provide guided support to help students use a range of context clues to arrive at a word’s meaning. Includes a rich mix of fiction and nonfiction passages. A great way to boost standardized test scores!

80 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Carol Ghiglieri is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She has an MA from Boston University’s Creative Writing Program and an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. Her short stories have appeared in a variety of literary journals, including The Missouri Review, the Alaska Quarterly Review, Crazyhorse, Potomac Review, and The Pinch. She’s been a recipient of the Writer’s Voice New Voice Fiction Award and Descant’s Gary Wilson Short Fiction Award, and her story collection, Bombshell, was a semifinalist for the 2013 Spokane Prize.

She has taught creative writing at Hofstra University, and offers writing workshops in Brooklyn.