3.1.6 Read and Discuss Day 3

• We will spend the next 10 minutes in breakout rooms discussing our jobs from day 2

• You can add to the discussion in different ways:

  • Come on the mic and share

  • Type in the zoom chat

  • Comment on at least 2 classmates' posts that on the padlet

Time for Discussion

• You can determine a word's meaning by studying its word parts or looking up its definition.

• Using context clues refers to looking for hints in a sentence, paragraph, or other text to figure out the meaning of unknown or unfamiliar words. 

• Context clues depend on inferences.

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Context Clues

Common types of context clues are:

• definitions provided later in the sentence

• definitions that can be inferred from the events in the story

• definitions that can be deduced because they are the opposite of what is being described.

Context Clues Cont.

• Recall that connotations refer to the emotions that a certain word brings forth.

• On the other hand, a denotation is a word's dictionary definition.

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Connotation and Denotation

• Choose the Lit Circle job that you are going to complete today

• Read the pages for today from your Reading Schedule on page 92 of your ELA Notebook

• While you read, make sure you are annotating either in your book or on the notes pages in your ELA Notebook

• After you read and complete your job, head to the padlet to share

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Time to Read!