Review

When you make an inference, what are you doing?

• Looking at surrounding words

• Making an educated guess

• Using prefixes to determine a word

Every day after work Paul took his muddy boots off on the steps of the front porch. Alice would have a fit if the boots made it so far as the welcome mat. He then took off his dusty overalls and threw them into a plastic garbage bag; Alice left a new garbage bag tied to the porch railing for him every morning. On his way in the house, he dropped the garbage bag off at the washing machine and went straight up the stairs to the shower as he was instructed. He would eat dinner with her after he was “presentable,” as Alice had often said.

What type of job does Paul have?

• Office job

• Maybe works in a mine/somewhere dirty

• Drives a truck

How can you use context clues to find what a word means?

• Context clues help you make an educated guess

• Context clues help you figure out what a word means based on the words around it

• Context clues give prefixes and suffixes that help us know what words mean

What is a simile?

• A comparison of two things

• An exageration

• A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"

• A sound or action noise

"This bellwork took a million years."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia