Guessing Meaning from Context

The best strategy for dealing with an unknown Word is

• Look it up in a bilingual dictionary

• Ask your teacher

• Ask another person, a friend or your parents

• Try to guess what it means

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Some reasons for guessing meaning from context are:

• It helps your concentration because you stay focused on the general sense.

• It helps build vocabulary because you propably remember the words.

• It demands you to know a lot of vocabulary.

• It requires a good usage of dictionary.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

A good way to make good guesses about unknown words is

• Read the first paragraph to identify the topic sentence.

• Read the first lines of a paragraph to locate specific information.

• Examine the context of the word.

• Preview and predict the topic of the text.

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Where would you find the following words: Crops, soil, fertilizers, climate?

• In a text on Agriculture

• In a text on Criminology

• In a text on History of art

• In a text on English Grammar

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the best option for the italicized word?: "Because there was so little precipitation this year, the crops dried up and died".

• Fertilizer

• Planting

• Rain

• Harvesting

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

My sister loathes broccoli, but she loves spinach.

• Dislikes intensely

• Eats eagerly

• Prepares and cooks

• Harvests and sells

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

All birds have feathers, and feathers are peculiar to birds. No other major group of animals is easy to categorize. All birds have wings, too, but there are other winged creatures, such as bats and certain insects.

• Necessary for

• Important to

• Symbolic of

• Unique to

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

All birds have feathers, and feathers are peculiar to birds. No other major group of animals is easy to categorize. All birds have wings, too, but there are other winged creatures, such as bats and certain insects.

• Appreciate

• Comprehend

• Classify

• Visualize

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

Yet diversity among birds is not as striking as it is among mammals.

• Function

• Heredity

• Specialty

• Variety

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The difference between a hummingbird and an emu is great, but hardly as dramatic as that between a bat and a whale.

• Definitely

• Not nearly

• Possibly

• Not softly

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CCSS.L.1.5D

CCSS.L.2.5B

CCSS.L.3.5C

CCSS.L.K.5D