Activity 1: Read Me Out Loud! Read the poem carefully then answer the questions that follow.
CONTEXT CLUES
By: Maribel Azote Cabalan - Buco
Tick tock, tick tock, I am stuck!
How can I unlock? How can I unlock?
When unfamiliar words are the ones that block!
Strategize, strategize, vocabulary wise!
Familiarize, familiarize, the words that arise
Hints here, signals there, clues are everywhere
Categorize, conceptualize, and then contextualize
Context clues are the ones that guide.
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What can you say about the poem?
Do you find difficulty in understanding the poem?

The poem expresses the feeling of a person who discerns a writing, learns a new language or simply tries to write something of his own.

The poet's message.

In this poem, the feeling through which a person passes who is discerning about a writing, sometimes scientific, is clearly identified, since the process of becoming familiar with technical vocabulary, categorizing it together with the writing and contextualizing it are essential guidelines to be able to speak properly on the writing or even use it as a source for your own study.

In the fragment that mentions "Context clues are the ones that guide," the poet explicitly points out that when any type of writing must be understood, the most important thing is to understand the context, which allows giving logic to the written word and understanding the purpose of the author.

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