PPT-Discover all the clues to good vision

Childrens Vision for Students Your eyes Are about as big as a pingpong ball Sit in a little hollow area in your skull called the eye socket Are protected at the front by the eyelid Are kept clean by blinking. 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. . 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. . Context clues. . Context clues . are hints that the author gives to help define a word you . don’t know. . . The clue may appear in the same sentence as the word you don’t know or in a . nearby . EQ: How do I use context clues to help me find the meaning of an unknown word?. What are . CONTEXT CLUES?. Anything in the context of a story that helps you to understand what the words mean.. synonyms. Context Clues and Sharks. Context clues help us attack unfamiliar words, and sharks attack fish. Like sharks, we have to attack! Let’s get inspired: . Fish are friends!. Context Clues. What are context clues?. 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.. 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 . Initiative?. Ability to take charge. Plan to continue. Task to complete. Terminate?. Start. Continue. End. Amplifies?. Increase. Decrease . Adjust. Curtail?. Improve. reduce. Stop. Degraded?. Practice Using Context Clues. A Strategy for Building Your Vocabulary. What is a context clue?. A . context clue . is a clue or a hint you can get about the meaning of an unfamiliar word from the words or text around it. . Context clues come in various forms. You should learn to recognize various context clues as a strategy to figure out unknown words. The following slides introduce several different kinds of context clues you can use.. BY Kathleen Borja 2008. Purpose of Context Clue Strategies. To help you figure our unfamiliar or unknown words when no dictionary, parent or other source is available.. To help you work out the meaning of the word by the context of the surrounding words.. SOL 6.4. SOL 8.4. 1. Definition Context Clues . Direct definition context clues. are words . that are defined directly in the text, next to the unknown word. . EXAMPLES. :. There are many . theories. 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. 83/1-001. Discover CERN: Accelerate. Discover CERN: Accelerate. ELISA. Discover CERN: Accelerate. ELISA. 5.500. Person giving the demo. Visitors. 3,75 m. 7,5 m.