Oftentimes when teaching context clues, we simply teach students to look at the sentence the word is contained in to figure out the definition. However, in my 17 years of teaching, I realized this method doesn't really help kiddos out. Thus, I decided to create a process that would effectively help kids come up with meanings without relying on the dictionary. I've been using this method in my classroom for a couple of years now, and it has really proved helpful.