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Subject Reading

Grade Level 3rd Grade

Content

Learning Objective 3.4 The student will expand vocabulary when reading.
d.) Use context to clarify meaning of unfamiliar words.

Complete the sentence below:

In this interactive white board activity, the children will touch the board to circle the
Pedagogy Planning

correct definition and drag the image to the definition of the image and learn about
using context to understand unfamiliar words.

Activity Describe what the
learning activity will be. What will the
students and the teacher be doing?
(This includes what they are doing
with the technology).
For our lesson, the students will be learning how to determine
the meaning of words from different context clues that are
provided. For this lesson, the students will start off sitting at
their desks in front of the Smartboard. I will start by talking to
the children about words they don’t know and ask them for
their ideas on how they could figure out the meaning of the
words. After students have time to answer I will talk to them
about context clues and how they can be used to help students
to figure out what a word in a sentence or passage means. I
will explain to the class that context clues are words that are
found in the sentence or in sentences that are near the
unfamiliar word and also you can sometimes look at the
pictures with text for clues. The students will use those clues to
figure out the meaning of a word.

I will share with students that we are going to practice finding

the meaning of different words by reading passages and
sentences on the smart board and the students will take turns
coming up and selecting the answer they believe is correct.

As a class, the students will raise their hands and when they
are called on, they will read the passages on the board.
Students will individually come to the board and take turns
answering different questions on the smartboard. Students
who are not called on will answer the questions at their seats.
The questions are sentences asking the students to determine
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 the meaning of an underlined word by the context clues in the
sentence or passage that was read. When the student has the
correct answer, they will circle it on the smart board. The
students will then drag the picture over the answer to see if
they have circled the correct answer. There are three short
stories for the students to read and two-three questions for
each story, for the children to match the picture with the
definition. If students have difficulty determining a word, they
will be able to go back to the story and highlight different parts
of the passage around the word to help them determine the
meaning of the word.

When the students are finished with the smartboard lesson,

they will finish with a worksheet activity at their desk. They
will read sentences and write in the correct word.

Technology Please provide the https://exchange.smarttech.com/preview/beacc32d-40c1-

Technol

direct link to the IWB lesson.

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