Context and Word Changes as Clues

Determining the meaning of an unfamiliar or multiple-meaning word in Grades 9-10, including a word's figurative, connotative, or technical meaning in an informational text, starts with using context, like a sentence, paragraph, or whole text's overall meaning, or a word's position or function in a sentence, as a clue. Identifying and correctly using patterns of word changes that indicate different meanings or parts of speech, like analyze, analysis, and analytical, or advocate and advocacy, is a related Grades 9-10 skill, and so is analyzing the cumulative impact specific word choices have on an informational text's own meaning and tone, like how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper.

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