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Week 4
Determine which details are relevant.
Define relevant details as those that are helpful.
Recognize that relevant details are related to the question.
Lesson explanation
grades 3-12
Activate more than text-to-self connections.
Put readers in the position of lacking memories or personal connections.
Identify texts/excerpts on unfamiliar topics.
Week 4, Day 17—Infer with patterns & relationships
Adjust thinking for schema as continuing to read for details.
Grades 4-6 Mini-Lesson Resources
Grades 7-12 Mini-Lesson Resources
Figure out tricky words with context clues
Readers question & predict word meanings.
Grades K-1
Mini-Lesson Resources
Grades 2-3
Mini-Lesson Resources
Grades 4-6
Mini-Lesson Resources
Grades 7-12
Mini-Lesson Resources
Introduce types of clues authors provide.
Help students determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
Teach students to look for clues before, after, and inside the word.
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Increase students’ awareness of context clues by teaching them to include definition details within their own writing using these lesson resources.
