Sentences with phrase «understanding context clues»

Each week, all students must take my alternative assessment test that requires them to use vocabulary words in sentences and to understand the context clues they use.

Not exact matches

Skills Covered Include: - Apply information - Choose the correct word - Expand vocabulary - Understand meaning of words and ideas - Use context clues - Use dictionary and glossary skills - Develop consumer skills - Find relevant facts - Understand and use reference sources - Understand consumer information - Analyze information - Fill out forms correctly

Skills Covered Include: - Apply information - Choose the correct word - Expand vocabulary - Understand meaning of words and ideas - Use context clues - Use dictionary and glossary skills - Develop life / survival skills - Find relevant facts - Spell correctly - Understand and use reference sources - Analyze information - Write an original sentence - Classify information - Determine alphabetical order - Express / justify an opinion - Make decisions / choices

When they are done, I have them score themselves on the vocabulary knowledge step, and then I go back and check how well they performed with context clue understanding.

As a student gets older, the context clues provided in understanding academic language are progressively reduced.

The more students recognize these context clues and can understand the basic words being used, the more they can build on their knowledge in order to scaffold to more difficult words.

Reading Skills Practice: Finding the main idea, using context clues, sequencing, determining cause and effect, making inferences, finding details, and understanding the difference between fact and opinion.

Reading Skills Practice: Making predictions, understanding vocabulary in context using context clues, finding the main idea, sequencing, identifying problems.

These 32 context clue task cards will help your students to better understand what they read and to improve their vocabularies.

Reading Skills Practice: Comparing and contrasting, determining fact vs. opinion, finding the main idea, using context clues to understand vocabulary, sequencing, making inferences, and determining supporting details

Reading Skills Practice: Finding the main idea, using context clues to understand vocabulary, sequencing, making inferences, and determining supporting details.

If students can gain confidence in reading because they understand what most of the words on the page mean, and can use context clues to figure out the remaining words, then their reading scores jump significantly.

Context clues are simply that: hints or additional information the author provides (purposefully or not) that can help you understand the meaning of a particular word or phrase.

This strategy also models how good readers use context clues to understand what they are reading.

But, we bet it made them feel a little better to know that they don't have to fake understanding when they read; the best readers question, reread, look for context clues, and more in order to better understand and move through the text.

We're talking about understanding a question, parsing natural language with irregular grammar, grasping context from clues, and coming up with an accurate answer.