Practice your active reading strategies in the following activity:
Vocabulary Building Skills
Context clues can help you learn new words without having to stop and look them up. Complete the interactives below to practice identifying the meanings of words based on context clues, and review the various types of context clues there are. Another helpful tool to expand your vocabulary is structural analysis; understanding root words, prefixes, and suffixes. Check out the article Root Words, Suffixes, and Prefixes by Reading Rockets to familiarize yourself with some of the most common ones, and if you want a more interactive exploration of root words, check out the Word Roots page by Membean.