Question

Sarah is having trouble understanding a word in her textbook. She decides to go back and read what came before it and what came after it to try to decide what it means. Which of the following strategies is Sarah using to try to determine the meaning of the term?

1. She is replacing it with a word that she is familiar with.

2. She is trying to determine the root of the word.

3. She is using affixes to determine the meaning.

4. She is using context clues to decipher meaning.

Answer 1

4 she is using context clues (using given information to figure out the answer to another piece of information that is unknown)