Unit 3 Vocabulary Ramos 78 Part 1 Using Context Context Clues Focus Questions What is a context clue What strategies can I use to use the context as clues to what a word might mean How do I use what I know and the information around a word to determine what it means ID: 611375
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Learning New Vocabulary
Unit 3 - Vocabulary
Ramos 7/8Slide2
Part 1: Using Context (Context Clues)Slide3
Focus Questions
What is a context clue?
What strategies can I use to use the context as clues to what a word might mean?
How do I use what I know and the information around a word to determine what it means?Slide4
What is a context clue?
Think/Pair/Share
A context clue is a hint within the context (words/meaning/information around the unknown word) to help you determine what a word means. Slide5
What strategies can I use to determine the meaning of unknown words?
Paste the table of the six types of context clues in your notebook.
Strategy 1: Using the information around a word and my own background knowledge to determine its meaning. Includes the definition, example illustration, contrast and logic context clues.
Strategy 2: Using your knowledge of Root words and Affixes (prefixes and suffixes) to determine its meaning.
Strategy 3: Using your knowledge of how a word functions (part of speech) to determine its meaning.Slide6
Using strategies to help
You will probably use more than one strategy at a time to determine the meaning of an unknown word.
Your own background knowledge may limit the strategies you can use.
Even if you can’t get a precise meaning, if you have a general understanding it can help you understand the meaning of the text more. Slide7
Context Clue Modeling
The lightning crawled across the sky like roadways on an
atlas
. The thunder was shaking loose what courage the crew had managed to
muster
after the skipper's big speech. Now Evan could see it in the faces of each of his shipmates. They were
floundering
in the middle of the Atlantic with no direction, like a leaf on the wind. They couldn't even follow the North Star, a natural compass. The black clouds above them
billowed
like lungs taking in air. As they bulged, they blotted out everything but lightning.
The ship dipped back and forth, bow first, into the tide, like a needle on a sewing machine. The spray from the storm and the push of the tide
doused
everyone on the ship's deck right down to their socks.
Then, off the starboard side, Evan saw the whisper of a light nearly
obscured
by the confusion of dark clouds merging with the black of the sea. As the sky shifted with the storm, the light began to open itself up to the crew of the
Emoke
Pulay
. Suddenly, the separation of the sea and sky became
apparent
. The skipper howled like a madman, "Steady as she goes, boys!"Slide8
Practice
Read the first passage of the unit.
Annotate as normal – but we are especially focused on finding words we do not know.
As you circle words you do not know – write a note in the margins about what you think the word may mean – try to use the context clues from strategy 1. Slide9
Strategy 2
Greek and Latin Roots and AffixesSlide10
Focus Questions
What is a root?
What is an affix?
What are common roots and affixes for English words?
How do I use my knowledge of roots and affixes to determine the meaning of a word?Slide11
What is a root?
A root, as the name suggests, is a word or word part from which other words grow. The root of the word
vocabulary
, for example, is
voc
,
a Latin rot meaning “word” or “name”Slide12
What is an affix?
A affix is a letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning (Prefix) or the end (Suffix) of a word that will partly indicate the words meaning.
For example, the word prefix begins with a affix,
pre,
which means “before”
A suffix also alters (changes) the grammatical function of the original word (Part of Speech)
For example, if you add the suffix –
er
to the verb
read
you make the word into a noun,
reader
.Slide13
Common Roots and Affixes
Paste the tables in your notebook – this is a list of the most common Greek and Latin Roots and English affixes.
After you paste the tables in take 5 minutes to study them.Slide14
How do I use this knowledge to help understand new words?
Using your knowledge of Greek and Latin Roots and Affixes will help you deduce (conclude) the meaning of an unknown word.
Examples:
The police reports had to be put in chronological order starting with 8:00 AM this morning.
The rich man donated millions because philanthropy was very important to him.
The baby’s skin is hypersensitive, we may need to see a dermatologist. Slide15
Practice
Go back through the words you circled in your passage 1 annotations.
See if you can further understand a word by applying your knowledge of Greek/Latin Roots and Affixes.