CM+RIT+191-200


 * Skill: Contextual Meaning**


 * Title of Lesson: Multiple Meanings**


 * RIT Range: 191-200**

• Recognizes meaning of words from context • Uses knowledge of word order (syntax) and context to support word identification and confirm word meaning • Uses knowledge of word meaning (semantics) and context to support word identification • Uses context to identify the correct meaning of words with multiple meanings
 * Objective:**


 * ISBE Standard:**

Understanding Multiple Meaning Teaching Cards 26-35 - Located in Marianne Rehfield's classroom (215a)
 * Resources/Materials:**

1. Choose a card and read the multiple meaning word. 2. Ask students if they know the different meaning of the word. 3. Brainstorm meanings together. 4. Write each student response on a dry erase board.
 * Introduction:**

1. Show the students the card with the two sentences. 2. Ask students if the sentences from the card use the word according to the definitions they brainstormed earlier. 3. Discuss the illustration. 4. Ask students to explain how the illustration depicts each sentence.
 * Lesson Activity:**

1. Pass out a card to each student. 2. Students will fill out the word meaning map for their multiple meaning card.
 * Closure:**

3. Students will act out one of the meanings on their cards for the rest of the students to guess.

Word Map worksheet Students acting out word- teacher observation for understanding of word
 * Method of Assessment/Data Collection:**


 * Lesson Title**: Using Context Clues

• Identifies meaning of words from context • Uses context to choose the correct meaning of words with multiple meanings • Uses knowledge of word order and context to support word identification and confirm word meaning • Uses knowledge of word meaning and context to support word identification
 * Objective:**

Use your 3-4 Open Court Decodables or Intervention Blackline master book. You may also use the passage below.
 * Resources/Materials:**

1. Say to the students: " Sometimes when you read, you will see a word you do not know. Using the context, or the words and sentences around the unknown word, can help you figure out the meaning of the word. Sometimes the writer will tell you what the word means. Another kind of context clue is words that have the same meaning as the new word."
 * Introduction:**

1. Using your Open Court Decodables or Intervention Blackline Master Book, copy a paragraph for each student. Underline words that students may struggle to understand the meaning. 2. Ask them to look for clues to the meanings of the underlined words. 3. Discuss their answers as a group. 4. Ask them what clues helped them figure out the meaning.
 * Lesson Activity:**

1. One kind of clue you used when reading the above was the synonyms. 2. Ask students if they can think of synonyms for other words in the sentences? Write as many synonyms as you can on a dry erase board for students to see. 3. Post the synonyms in a place for students to reference at a later time.
 * Closure:**

Read the story. Find the words that DO NOT make sense in the context of the story. Then think og words that would make more sense in those sentences. Rewrite the sentences using the new words.
 * Method of Assessment/Data Collection:**

A desert is a place of many contrasts. In the daytime, it can be very hot. At night, the temperature can rise well below freezing. For most of the year, little rain falls in the desert. But sometimes, it will rain so lightly that the land is flooded. At first glance, a desert sounds like an empty place. Look more closely, though, and you will find few living things. Many snakes, lizards, birds, and other fish live in the desert.

Reading Passage:

A desert is a place where rain __seldom__ falls. It might rain only once in four or more years. The camel is well suited to its __arid__ desert home. A camel can go for about eight days without water. Its feet are __broad__ and have soft pads. These wide feet do not sink into the sand. __Double__ eyelashes protect the camel's eyes from sandstorms. These two rows of lashes keep sand from entering the camel's eyes.