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Context-Clue Dragon Boat Race
Created by Argraide
Updated October 27th, 2026
At a glance
- Staff pick
- Picked by the Argraide team
- Play mode
- 👥 Group
- Format
- 🖼️ 2D
- Length
- ⏱ About 20 minutes
- Subject
- ELA
- Grade
- 10
- Curriculum
- Ontario
- Curriculum codes
- B3.2B3.3
About this activity
Two dragon-boat teams race across the big screen at a fictional Lake Ontario harbourfront festival. Each round shows one or two short original sentences in one of the OSSLT's four reading forms with one unfamiliar word; every phone taps the clue words, names the clue type in a drop-down menu and chooses the meaning in single-selection, and correct answers paddle that phone's team toward the finish buoy.
What students learn
- Find the words in a sentence that give the clue to an unfamiliar word
- Name the type of context clue: definition, synonym, antonym or example
- Work out the meaning the word has in this sentence, not only its everyday meaning
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