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FifthYear Interim Report 2013 SACSCOC Annual Meeting December 710 2013 Atlanta Georgia UCF Team Tace Crouse coordinator of UCFs FifthYear Report and peer reviewer Diane Chase . Context is the situation in which a word or expression is used. . Details in the surrounding text give you clues to the word’s meaning. . Types of Context Clues. Definition. The word is directly and clearly defined in the sentence in which it appears. . Tell me what the unfamiliar word does NOT mean!. Today we will:. Review use of Venn Diagrams and antonym context clues to figure out the meaning of difficult words.. We’ll do some together.. You’ll do some on your own.. Context clues are . hints. found within a sentence, paragraph, . or passage . that a reader can use to understand . the meanings . of new . or unfamiliar . words.. Words in Context. Readers must be aware that many words have several possible meanings. . Context Clues . Context Clues:. words or phrases surrounding a difficult word that can help you define its meaning. . Read the passage on the next slide and supply context clues for the underlined words. . (Vocabulary Skills). Sandra Sembel. Uphenglishclasses.weebly.com. Learning Targets. Clues (Pointers) in the surrounding text that can help us to guess the meaning of a word in a sentence. What?. Word. A secret, a riddle, a puzzle. Essential ingredients are an element of crime mixed with an element of detection. You have to find out the secret, and solve the riddle or puzzle to find the criminal or enemy and crack the case . Write Now:. In your writer’s notebook, please write what you predict . context clues. might be. . You can be a definition detective!. Have you ever read a sentence that had an unfamiliar word in it? Sometimes, when we see words that we don’t know, we don’t bother trying to figure it out. However, there are steps we can follow that can help us determine the definition of an unfamiliar word. Those steps are called . Reading . Skill: . Guessing . meaning from context. If you . come across . a word you don’t . understand . in . a book or article you are reading, . you can use the context to help you understand the meaning of the word. The context is the words near the unknown word. Looking up every new word in the dictionary will slow your reading.. What are context clues?. 3 minutes (. independent. ). Use the BAV method to write down the definition of context clues. 2 minutes (. collaborate. ). Round Robin with your team to discuss what context clues are. A Civil War Mystery. In this activity, we are going to be . history. detectives. . as we explore Civil War artifacts. from the National Museum of American History. . Look carefully…. What clues do you see? . English 10. Context Clues . Learning to recognize context clues helps you learn new words. . Punctuation. Watch for commas, colons and hyphens. . Punctuation will alert you to an upcoming definition or explanation.. Using Context Clues. What is missing from the photograph?. Using Context Clues. What is Context Clue?. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgaSmJKR9HM. {Click mouse to continue}. An Author’s Clues. Authors usually give clues called . Context Clues are clues that good readers use to find the meaning of unknown words. These clues can be found in the words and sentences surrounding the unknown word or phrase.. Types of Context Clues. 1 “The Mystery” The Mystery 2 Here is the first post of the “Revelation of the Mystery” Bible study series. “ The Revelation of the Mystery ”, what is it, is it Biblical, is it important? What God calls “The Revelation of the Mystery” in Holy scripture may be novel to some as Christendom generally speaking does not use that term. We will learn from the Bible