Read the sentence.While skiing on the mountain, an AVALANCHE buried the trees in the snow.Use the context clues. What is the meaning of the capitalized words?

There are many times when students are reading materials and they come across an unknown word. One way to figure out the meaning of the word is to look it up in a dictionary. Another way is to use the context clues. There are usually clues in the sentence to help students figure out the meaning of the unknown word.