Ready-to-teach lesson
Use Context to Determine Word Meaning
Zoe Sophia's Scrapbook - Grade 3 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
PRODUCT
15 minutes Find the Italian words in this book and the place where each one is Rows for each Italian word, with explained. a box for what it means and a box for how the book told you Essential question:
How does this book teach you a word you have never seen?
Materials
Text to mark
- The book The three pages copied
- Passage 1 - a girl in a red beret being kissed by a tall woman in black
- Prepared passages: Passage 1, Passage 3, Passage 9, Passage 11
- Passage 3 - the girl at breakfast in an I love NY shirt, a cat on the table
- Passage 9 - the same gondolier at the door with the two dogs
Lesson sequence
1 The first one - 4 min
- Passage 11 - the girl and her great aunt at a window at night, a cat on the sill
- Focus:
- A meaning tucked into brackets
- Teacher model:
- Read this entry and ask how the class knows what the Italian word means.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 1 2 Fill the rows - 7 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write each Italian word on this page and what it means.
- Expected answer:
- The meal's name is explained by which means and then the English; the foods are described rather than translated.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 3 3 Two more - 4 min
- Teacher direction:
- Do the same for these pages' words.
- Expected answer:
- Each is followed by its English - one by which means, and the good-night phrase simply by its translation.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 9, Passage 11
Support & extension
Above: Find an Italian word the book does not explain and say how you could work it out from the page.
Below: Find one Italian word and read out the words that tell you its meaning.
Assessment
- Pairs a word with its meaning from the same sentence
- Names the phrase the book uses to introduce a meaning
page 1
- Notices some meanings are in brackets instead
page 1
page 2