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    Context Clues

    Practice & Application

    Context clues
    Getting "clues," inferring or figuring out what a word means from the "context," or other known words in the sentence.

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    New Word What I infer it means What helped me figure this out

    Practice #1
    The webert Sam brought for lunch looks delicious. It contained layers of roast beef, cheese, lettuce, and tomato piled in between two slices of bread. Sam couldn't wait to eat it. New Word What I infer it means What helped me figure
    this out webert sandwich -Layers of roast beef, cheese, lettuce, tomato two slices of bread -lunch -eat -delicious - brought

    Practice #2
    The locloey is very expensive but useful tool in the classroom. Students actually fight over whose turn it is to use it. Research, typing, games, and other activities can be done on it.
    New Word What I infer it means What helped me figure this out -research, typing, games, etc. -expensive -useful tool -fight over -students use it -classroom

    Locloey

    computer

    Practice #3
    Tanya liked to pick pytusul in the fall. She would fill bushel baskets with red or green fruit and use them to make pies, muffins, sauce, and other treats.
    New word pytusul What I infer it means 1. Berries 2. Apples 3. Fruit 4. Tomatoes What helped me figure this out 1. Pies, muffins, sauce, and other treats 2. Red or green fruit 3. Like to pick in the fall 4. Green fruit, pies, muffins, sauce

    Practice #4
    The packrock lives in both Africa and Asia. These enormous animals feast on foliage and use their long, prehensile trunks to drink water and pick up food. In parts of Asia and India, they are trained to work for humans. They carry loads and lift and move objects.
    New Word What I infer it means What helped me figure this out

    Do you spend hours in front of a computer, at a desk, or in front of the TV? If you do, it's likely that you are too sedentary. Health professionals would offer you this advice: Get up and go.
    New word What I infer it means What helped me figure this out

    Sedentary

    Sedentary: sitting most of the time; not moving

    No matter how old you are, there are numerous reasons to put an end to laziness or inertia. Exercise lowers blood pressure.
    New Word What I infer it means Erica: laziness Inertia Jazmine: obsesity Manuel: laziness What helped me figure this out E-there are numerous reasons to put an end to laziness J-laziness, lowers blood pressure, exercise M-laziness or inertia

    Inertia: the state of not moving or not feeling like moving

    If all those reasons aren't enough to get you moving, consider this: People who exercise convert fewer calories into fat than people who sit still.
    New Word What I infer it means Angel-lose Convert What helped me figure this out A-people who exercise ___ fewer calories D-people who exercise, fewer calories into fat J-exercise, fat, sit still

    Donye-transvert
    Jazmine-produce

    Convert: to change into another form, substance, or thing

    In combination with proper diet, exercise can help you lose weight or stay at the recommended weight. Lethargy is fine for the places where you must be seated, like a train New What I infer it means What helped me figure orWord a bus.
    this out Manuel: inactivity Lethargy Izaak: sitting Cesar: sitting M: must be seated I: train or bus, seated C: seated, train or bus, proper diet, exercise T: seated, proper diet

    Taher: jogging in place

    Lethargy: physical or mental slowness

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