2.10: Analyze Word Meanings

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LL: Analyzing Word Meanings & Context Clues

While you wait:

What are synonyms for the words below?

• Big

• Beautiful

• Hungry

• Sleepy

Standard:

ELAGSE8L4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. a. Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

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Learning Target: 

I can explain how to use context clues to help identify word meanings.

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Activator-Context Clues

Multiple Choice

Use context clues to determine what the boldface vocabulary word means in each sentence:

Elephants are big (an African elephant can stand thirteen feet tall), but a little tender, loving care can still benefit, or help, them.

You can tell from the sentence that if we benefit the elephants, we _____________ them.

• like

• adjust

• help

• stand by

Multiple Choice

Many laws and plans are helping to keep elephants alive. As a result, the species’ chances of survival may be improving.

To provide a clue into the meaning of survival, the writer:

• speaks of having a plan

• refers to keeping the elephant species alive

• refers to having a disaster

• tells about governments making new laws

Multiple Choice

What is the meaning of consumption as used in the passage?

• the process of taking food in the body through the mouth

• the amount that someone eats or drinks

• the process of buying or using goods

• the decay or destruction of a resource

Multiple Choice

Select the synonym (a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word ) for the word in bold.

Thousands of boisterous soccer fans filled the stadium, waving flags and singing fight songs. When the center forward quickly scored a goal, the rowdy crowd erupted in cheers.

• peaceful

• quiet

• orderly

• rowdy

Dropdown

Complete the text with the correct word.

Jazz is a popular celebration of music and culture in New Orleans. Every year thousands of people attend the festival to experience​

Select answer

spectacular performances as well as the local cuisine and artwork.

Open your Weekly Plan and first, choose something from the 'Must Do' column, then choose from the 'Can Do' column, then the Enrichment side.

Everyone, can study for the Unit 5 Exam or continue taking it. Also, Notebook Check 2 opens tomorrow (new students are excused).

Independent Work Time

Multiple Choice

Use context clues to determine what the boldface vocabulary word means in each sentence.

Elephants need plenty of land because they migrate, moving from place to place in search of food.

To give a clue into the meaning of migrate, the writer. . .

• describes in great detail the elephants' diet

• notes how elephants move from place to place

• describes the life of elephants that lives in zoos

• explains that elephants need a lot of sleep