Context and Text Meaning

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

Tags

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.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

My sister loathes broccoli, but she loves spinach.

• Dislikes intensely

• Eats eagerly

• Prepares and cooks

• Harvests and sells

Tags

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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

• Function

• Heredity

• Specialty

• Variety

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the meaning of the word in blue text?
 
You must not be indiscriminate when you are shopping for shoes. Carefully consider which shoes will be best for you before making your purchase.

• indecisive
• careful

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

I meandered through the mall taking my time looking at all the clothes in the windows.

• hurried
• ran
• wandered
• jogged

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5D

CCSS.L.2.5B

CCSS.L.3.5C

CCSS.L.K.5D

Ms. Hawkins REPRIMANDED a student for throwing paper airplanes in class.

• scolded

• rewarded

• arrested

• seated

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

Based on the sentence, what does the blue word most likely mean?
In the movie Maleficent, a vengeful fairy curses an infant child. 

• harmful
• magical
• hated
• scary

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C