Using What You Know to Work Out a Word
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Using What You Know to Work Out a Word
Using what you know: work out arid, hibernate, molten, compass, and nocturnal from what you already know about deserts, bears, volcanoes, sailing, and owls. With an answer key.
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Work out what a new word means from the words and sentences around it: a definition, an example, a word with the same or opposite meaning, or a cause and effect.
Reviewed by Mr. James Anderson, Teacher and Mr. Michael Sullivan, Teacher. How we check worksheets
How to use this sheet
- Have the child underline the words around the new word that give clues.
- Have the child try their meaning in the sentence in place of the word and see if it makes sense.
- Look the word up after guessing, to check how close the guess was.
Common mistakes
- Guessing a meaning from what the word looks like, such as "fragile" means "frog".
- Using only the sentence with the word. The clue is often in the next sentence.
- Using the everyday meaning of a word that has a special meaning in a subject, such as "table" in math.
