Using Context For Confirmation Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: RF.4.4.C

Core Standard
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We will often come across an unknown word or definition that we clearly have never seen before. We highly suggest you encourage your students to keep a journal of these words that they come across in their travels. This is a great technique for really helping your vocabulary take off. These worksheets will help students push their ability to communicate to the next level. These worksheets will help students better grasp this process.

Context For Confirmation Worksheets:

Sullivan's Fall – We learn new words from this underwater adventure.

Context Clues In Action – See if the other words give you a leg up on new words.

Find the Meaning – You are just worried about the underlined words.

Sentence Context – An either / or activity for you here.

Determining Meaning – This worksheet states the question in normal test form.

Using Context to Find Meaning – For each underlined word, use the context clues or words that surround it to find the meaning. Write it on the line.

Expand Your Vocabulary – A really neat matching activity based on a paragraph context.

Sentences for Context – Use a dictionary to help you. Write the correct word on the line.

Bold As It Can Be – Follow the form: Evelyn saved up her money and was eventually able to purchase a bicycle. Which word is a synonym for purchase?

Underliner – More A/B work for you.

Clue Me In – These sentences are a slight bit longer.

The Mouse and the Cheese – Underline the part of the sentence that helps you to figure out the meaning of the bold word.

Use the Sentence – This are the longest sentences in this section.

UFO Encounter – Medium size sentences here for you.

Just Dogging It – This will take some students minutes and other a half an hour.

How to Make Inferences from Context?


Here are a few steps to make inferences from context or a passage.


Identify the Questions


One of the most important steps to take while making inferences from the context is to actually identify and understand the question first. It is possible for you to answer the question incorrectly if you do not make the right inference from the context. Inference questions usually contain phrases like


According to the context, we can infer...

Which of the following statement can be implied by the text...

The author seems to suggest that...

According to the passage, it can be inferred that...


There are also some confusing questions that would not contain any of the above-mentioned phrases. Instead, you will have to actually guess on your own if the question is asking for inference from the context.


Trust the Context


Once you have identified the inference question, it is time to hunt for the answer. In order to correctly answer an inference question, you will have to completely let go of your prior knowledge and prejudice. You will have to completely depend on the passage itself to find out the answer. Look for details in the passage that will support your inference.


Look for Clues


In order to make the right inference from the context, you will have to take help from the passage and its details. You can look for clues in the passage that will support your inference. These clues could be anything from vocabulary to a character's description and dialogues.


Narrow Down the Choices


When you are given a multiple choice question that requires you to make inferences, one of the easiest ways to do so is to narrow down the choices. You can do so by eliminating the choices that are most obviously wrong. After that, you will be left with two or three choices. You can use clues and descriptions from the text to make the right choice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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