ENGL1001 Reading Context Clues

ENGL1001 ENGLISH SKILLS
Reading Skills
CT1. Listening strategies to comprehend ideas.

CT2. Reading techniques for better fluency

Lesson Objectives:

Apply context clues and your knowledge of word familes when you read a text with unfamiliar words.

Discuss and evaluate different vocabulary building techniques to improve your fluency in reading.

Frey and Fisher (2011)

" Look inside the word and outside the word to see what you know." 

Multiple Choice

I was so parched, I drank an entire glass of water in one gulp.

• Hungry

• Sleepy

• Frustrated

• Thirsty

Multiple Choice

The suspect managed to evade the police by hiding in a hole.

• entertain

• tempt

• startle

• escape

Multiple Choice

What is a context clue?

• personification
• Word or words that are hints to tell you the meaning  of part of the text

• Words that start with the same letter
• Metaphors

Context Clues

• An important strategy to help build your vocabulary is use of context.

• This means using the clues or hints provided in the text that surround an unfamiliar word to help guess its meaning.

• This can include the following: words, phrases, or sentences that appear before, after, or close to the word; visuals or headings embedded in the text

Multiple Choice

What type of context clues use similar words to help with the meaning of an unknown word?

• Antonyms
• Synonyms
• Examples
• HDefinitions

Inference
Definition
Example
Antonyms
Synonyms

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Types of Context clues:

Multiple Choice

No matter where you go, the Internet is following you. Almost every portable device is being made with an Internet connection. Most new TVs and many other appliances come with Internet connections as well. The Internet is truly ubiquitous.

• It is portable

• It is everywhere

• It costs too much money

• It is cheap

Word Families and word parts (affixes)

• A word family is a group of words that are from the same root word

• This means they share a common origin and often have similar meanings.

• Learning word families helps you to expand your vocabulary, as well as improve your understanding of English words and their relationships.

Word Families

These are letters that come before the word (prefix) or after the word (suffix).

A prefix usually changes the meaning of a word, while a suffix changes the form of the word but not its 'core' meaning.
How can you change the meaning of happy without deleting any letters?

Word Parts (affixes)

Multiple Choice

In the word UNACCEPTABLE, which word part is the ROOT?

• accept

• able

• un

• unacceptable

Multiple Choice

In the word UNACCEPTABLE, which word part is the PREFIX?

• accept

• able

• un

• unacceptable

Multiple Choice

In the word UNACCEPTABLE, which word part is the SUFFIX?

• accept

• able

• un

• unacceptable

Multiple Select

If the word UNACCEPTABLE means not able to be accepted, what do the prefix UN and the suffix ABLE mean? Choose TWO correct answers.

• UN means "without"

• UN means "not"

• ABLE means "able to be"

• ABLE means "one who"

Multiple Choice

Based on the sample words prefix, predict, preview, and prepare, what does the prefix "pre" mean?

• after

• before

• above

• below

Multiple Select

Which TWO statements correctly describe prefixes? Choose TWO.

• They come at the end of a word.

• All prefixes mean "not."

• They come at the beginning of a word.

• They change a word's meaning.

Multiple Choice

Which statement does NOT correctly describe suffixes?

• They come at the end of a word.

• They often identify the part of speech of a word.

• They come at the beginning of a word.

• They affect a word's meaning.

Word Cloud

Make new word meanings or word forms from this 'root' word:

do

Word Cloud

Make new word meanings or word forms from this 'root' word:

possible