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12-4-R-3
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Standard 4: Vocabulary
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Students will expand their working vocabularies to effectively communicate and understand texts.
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READING: Students will expand academic, domain-appropriate, grade-level vocabularies through reading, word study, and class discussion. |
12.4.R.3 Students will use context clues to determine or clarify the meaning of words or distinguish among multiple-meaning words. |
Student Actions
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Teacher Actions
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- Students will continue to utilize context clues to help them comprehend word meanings.
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- Teachers provide students opportunities to determine the meaning of words based on context clues.
- Teachers provide opportunities for students to explain how context clues helped them identify the meaning of words.
- Teachers monitor student work to ensure the correct meanings are being found.
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Supporting Resources
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Teacher Insights
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ELA OAS Glossary pg 4
Context Related to Vocabulary (article)
Context Clues (PDF) |
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Context clues are the information from the textual setting that helps identify a word or word group.
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There are five main types of context clues: Definition/Explanation clues, Restatement/Synonym clues, Contrast/Antonym clues, Inference/General Context clues, Punctuation clues. This helpful PDF will provide examples of each type.
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Occasionally, it is important to consider the context of the text overall rather than just the sentence in which the word appears.
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Example: In the following sentence, simply using the context does not help the student to identify the bolded word: “Everything Jane does is so perfect,” said Carrie grudgingly.
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In this example, the statement regarding Jane does not help us define grudgingly.
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When examining passages with nondirective context, teachers should direct students to refer to word parts, sentence structure, the overall tone of the passage, or an outside reference material.
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Multiple-meaning words are words that are spelled the same, are pronounced the same, but have different meanings that can be determined based on the context of the text. Multiple-meaning words can also be called homonyms. (For more on these types of word, see standard 4.R.4.)
- While you are at the play, I will play with my dog.
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Due to recursive nature of the standards, it is essential that teachers are aware of how all objectives within and between strands work together for optimal instruction.
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