WorksheetIntermediate Reading StrategiesModule Enriching Your Vocabulary
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Intermediate Reading Strategies
Module: Enriching Your Vocabulary Using Context Clues to Find Word Meanings
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Get It from the Context!
Many times you can figure out the meaning of a word from the rest of the sentence or paragraph. Good writers help you do this. Not-so-good writers can leave you stranded!
Can you find examples of both kinds of writing?
Go to the library and find a magazine about a topic that is new to you. It will surely have articles with words you don't know. Find a short article that looks interesting. Make a photocopy of the article, if you can, and staple the copy to this worksheet. Or you can write the paragraphs you find on the back of this worksheet.
Start to read the article. When you find a word you don't know, try the Words in Context strategy. Mark the word with one color. Mark the clues you find with another color. When you think you know the meaning of the word, fill in the boxes on this page.
The title of the article is: _____________________________________________________
The article is about: ________________________________________________________
Good Examples — the Writer Helped Me!
What is the word? _____________________
Bad Examples — I Couldn't Figure It Out!
What is the word? ______________________
What clues helped you?
Did another strategy work?
What does the word mean in the article where you found it?
What do you think the word means?
What is the word? _____________________
What is the word? ______________________
What clues helped you?
Did another strategy work?
What does the word mean in the article where you found it?
What do you think the word means?
Check your ideas. Ask someone else to look at your Bad Examples. Perhaps that person will see clues that you missed. Or perhaps he or she will agree that the writer didn't help you!
Permission is granted to instructors to copy and distribute this worksheet for instructional purposes only. Copyright © 2001
PLATO Learning, Inc. All
Intermediate Reading Strategies
Module: Enriching Your Vocabulary Using Context Clues to Find Word Meanings
Name:
Date:
Get It from the Context!
Many times you can figure out the meaning of a word from the rest of the sentence or paragraph. Good writers help you do this. Not-so-good writers can leave you stranded!
Can you find examples of both kinds of writing?
Go to the library and find a magazine about a topic that is new to you. It will surely have articles with words you don't know. Find a short article that looks interesting. Make a photocopy of the article, if you can, and staple the copy to this worksheet. Or you can write the paragraphs you find on the back of this worksheet.
Start to read the article. When you find a word you don't know, try the Words in Context strategy. Mark the word with one color. Mark the clues you find with another color. When you think you know the meaning of the word, fill in the boxes on this page.
The title of the article is: _____________________________________________________
The article is about: ________________________________________________________
Good Examples — the Writer Helped Me!
What is the word? _____________________
Bad Examples — I Couldn't Figure It Out!
What is the word? ______________________
What clues helped you?
Did another strategy work?
What does the word mean in the article where you found it?
What do you think the word means?
What is the word? _____________________
What is the word? ______________________
What clues helped you?
Did another strategy work?
What does the word mean in the article where you found it?
What do you think the word means?
Check your ideas. Ask someone else to look at your Bad Examples. Perhaps that person will see clues that you missed. Or perhaps he or she will agree that the writer didn't help you!
Permission is granted to instructors to copy and distribute this worksheet for instructional purposes only. Copyright © 2001
PLATO Learning, Inc. All