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- Grade Range
- 10th
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Students compare and contrast music from a range of historical and cultural contexts, and music created for a variety of purposes (e.g. dance music, religious music) and analyze how images/feelings are expressed in music within a variety of contexts. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students read and write literary criticism. They define cultural context and describe aspects of others' contexts as well as their own. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 8th
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Students use context clues to determine meaning of unfamiliar words, then read a newspaper or magazine article to pick out unfamiliar words and use context clues to determine the word's meaning. They share their findings with the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students determine the meaning of words through the use of context clues. They research the concept of context clues from a web site and then use those skills to find meaning to nonsense words. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students complete a unit of lessons examining the cultural context of the novel, 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.' They write a critique of the novel, compare/contrast two published critiques, and explore various websites. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students practice using sentence and word context to get clues about the meaning of unknown words. They are told that context clues are pieces of information in the sentences and illustrations around the unknown word that often supply the meaning of the word. Students are given a copy of the BLM Nonsense Word Puzzlers. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th
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Students examine how to utilize context clues to comprehend text. They observe the teacher modeling strategies to use context clues to comprehend vocabulary from the text, and as a class create a word web, using the dictionary to locate the correct definition. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students discuss ways of dealing with unfamiliar words in reading. They use the SMART Board Notebook file and read the definition of a context clue. Students practice looking for synonyms, antonyms, examples experience, and explanation as the five types of context clues. A link to the worksheet is included with the lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students determine the meaning of unknown vocabulary using contect clues and text structures. As a class they read sentences, and identify the four main types of context clues. In small groups they complete a graphic organizer, and write sentences for vocabulary words using the context clues. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students examine how the unwritten rules of culture depend upon the context in which an event or behavior takes place. They explain cultural context and develop a poster, multimedia presentation, or radio spot that illustrates how misunderstanding the cultural context of a situation at school or in the community can cause problems. Full Review »
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