PPT-Guessing Meaning from Context

What do you usually do when you come to a word you do not know while reading a look it up in the dictionary b ask your teacher c ask a friend d try to guess what it means Advantages of . Tengyu. Ma. Xiaoming. Sun. Huacheng. Yu. Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences Tsinghua University. Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University . Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences. Cornell Notes . Mini lesson . What can good readers do when they read a word they don’t know? . Look for example clues. Look for contrast/antonym clues . Look for keyword clues. Tips on understanding new vocabulary.. Hints About Meanings of New Words. Sometimes when you read you have to be a word detective. . When you come to a new word in your reading the first thing you should do is decide whether you have to know the word in order to get the meaning of the paragraph. . DO NOW:. Get your notebook and a copy of . Midsummer. Flip through the . Midsummer. book and write down 5 words you do not know the meaning of and the page number and line number you found the word. 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. cred, . gastr. , . mit. /miss, . poli. , . ri. /. ridi. /. risi. . CRED (Latin). SAT Focus Word: credence (n.). Meaning: belief that something is true or valid. Context: Danforth should not have lent any . Reading Comprehension. What is a context clue?. A context clue is a word or phrase near an unknown word that helps the reader understand its meaning.. Duplicity. is defined as deceitfulness.. Let’s look at this word through the lens of six commonly used context clues.. Expresses feelings and experiences through visual and sensory (smell, hearing, taste, feel) tools. Also includes revision/drafting tools. Nothing Gold Can Stay. By Robert Frost. Nature’s first green is gold, . GrowingKnowing.com © 2011. 1. GrowingKnowing.com © 2011. Binomial probabilities. Your choice is between success and failure. You toss a coin and want it to come up tails. Tails is success, heads is failure. FSA Reading . Targeted Standards Review. Definition: Context Clues. A . context clue . is a hint in the text that can help a reader figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word. Where in the world is the context clue?. 1. GrowingKnowing.com © 2011. Binomial probabilities. Your choice is between success and failure. You toss a coin and want it to come up tails. Tails is success, heads is failure. Although you have only 2 conditions: success or failure, it does not mean you are restricted to 2 events. Peter S. Gardner (1996). The “What” and “Why’s” of Using Context Clues. context the sentence and paragraph in which the word appears. using context clues allows the reader to make an educated guess . glu. . glue, agglutinate, conglomerate. l. ump, bond, glue. Root. . Meaning . Examples. . g. rad, . gress. . s. tep, go. grade. , gradual, graduate, progress, graduated, egress . Root. .