[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on ways of searching through the context for clues to illuminate unknown words. Unknown words interrupt the flow of your reading, and, like a bump in the road, slow you down. This lesson will help you to look for the context around the troublesome word. Often a writer will include hints to its meaning, getting you over the bump and enabling you to continue reading. RI.11-12.4 Word meaning, L.11-12.4d Verify meaning