Help your pupils discover the power of context clues by teaching the this vocabulary strategy. Designed to go with words from Willa Cather's My Antonia, this exercise focuses on having individuals use their own words to define new vocabulary.

Concepts

my antonia, willa cather, Vocabulary, context clues

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• To allow pupils the freedom to write longer sentences, have them simply draw the four-rectangle grids on a piece of lined or white paper; they can customize the exact size by the length of the words, definitions, and sentences

Classroom Considerations

• There is a note at the bottom of the student handout that you will want to white out before making copies
• While the resource says there are words and page numbers for learners to look up, these are not included; come up with your own list of target words instead

Pros

• Offers suggestions for using this as a formative assessment that informs future vocabulary instruction
• This vocabulary exercise could be used with any words from any text

Cons

• Watch out for the spelling and usage errors

Common Core

L.9-10.4.a L.11-12.4.a