Multiple Meaning Words

Multiple Choice

There's science behind the alarm clock that wakes you up, the weather report that influences what you wear, the toothpaste you use to brush your teeth, and even the clean water that comes from your fawcet.

How should this sentence be changed?

• Delete the comma after up

• Change comes to come

• Change fawcet to faucet

• The sentence should not be changed.

Multiple Choice

In fact, my sister and I became so interested in the topic that we decide to base our joint science project on the concept of increasing efficiency by replacing a human worker with an automated one.

What change need to me made in the sentence?

• Change efficiency to efficiently

• Change decide to decided

• Change automated to automatted

• No change needs to be made in this sentence.

Multiple Choice

As the car turns upright and glides to a halt in the station, I know exactly what I’m going to do next.

What is the most effective transition to add to the beginning of the sentence ?

• For example

• To repeat

• On the other hand

• In fact

Multiple Choice

Unfortunately, my hands aren’t interested in what my brain is telling them to do.What is the most effective revision to make in the sentence?

• Unfortunately, my hands aren’t interested, they don’t care what my brain is telling them to do.

• Unfortunately, my hands aren’t interested in what my brain is telling my hands to do.

• Unfortunately, my hands and my brain aren’t interested in what it is telling them to do.

• No revision is needed in this sentence.

Multiple Meaning Words

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Connection

TEKS: 6.2B

We will use print or digital resources to define words.

We will find the meaning of the word as used in the passage.

​CKH: We will learn to have patience with ourselves and others.

Teaching Point

When a word has more than one meaning you have to use your context clues to figure out which definition is correct.

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Multiple-Meaning Words

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What can bat mean?

​It depends on how it is used in the passage.

​Remember... that a dictionary can have a multitude of meanings.. You have to match the meaning of the word as used in the passage with the dictionary meaning

Multiple Choice

My favorite animal at the zoo is the seal.

• The part of a top or lid on a container that shows it has not been opened.

• To close something very tightly.

• A sea mammal with large flippers that lives in a cold region.

Multiple Choice

We went to the park to watch my favorite baseball team play.

• To leave a motor vehicle someplace for a time.

• An area of land with grass and trees.

• A field or stadium, especially for sports events.

Multiple Choice

I connected the book I was reading to a different book that I read last week.

• To join one thing to another; fasten together.

• To think of something in relation to something else.

• To plug into an electrical or telephone circuit.

Multiple Choice

The cat arched its back and hissed because it was mad.

• A curved structure that bears the weight of the material above it.

• The lower part of the foot which makes a curve between the heel and toes.

• To bend into an arch or curve.

Multiple Choice

Movies about ghosts give me the creeps.

• To move slowly with the body close to the ground or floor.

• To grow along the ground or wall, such as an ivy.

• A feeling of fear or horror.

Multiple Choice

We fed all of the perch that we caught to the cats that live in the barn.

• A bar, branch or rod that a bird can land on (noun).

• To sit up rather high on something (verb).

• A small freshwater or saltwater fish.