[LIT] vocab / Middle Ground

[Linda Crumrine]

I think we need to teach our students that they should try context  
clues, but that they often do not work.  Beck teaches there are 4  
types of context, and this is what I teach my  students.  Here is an  
example of each type of context:
Categories of Natural Context:

Misdirective - There’s a wireless and lots of books.

Nondirective - Paula put down her pirn, wrapped herself in a  
paduasoy, and entered puerperium.

General Context - Eagles eat carrion mostly in the winter, when other  
food is hard to find.

Directive Context - Eagles have talons, or claws, to help hold  
slippery, wriggling fish.

I think when we teach context, we also need to teach flexibility of  
thinking.




On Feb 3, 2008, at 7:05 PM, FineArt11 at aol.com wrote:

> we do not do any dictionary work in my high school classroom.   
> they  are
> struggling readers and i have found the dictionary will not help.   
> they  are not
> inclined to work their way through the definitions to find the  
> correct  one.
> would they not have to understand the context anyway to find the   
> correct
> dictionary meaning?  we use context clues to find the definition   
> because they will
> not have a dictionary to use during a test or the SAT and  sadly,  
> they will
> not make the effort to use one when they come across a word  they  
> do not
> understand when reading anytime.
>
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