Clarifications:
Essential Understandings
- Recall the meaning of frequently used nouns.
- Identify multiple meaning words up to two grade levels below the student’s grade level.
- Identify the context in which the unknown word is being used by looking at the text before and after it.
- List the possible meanings of an unknown word by using the context (words surrounding the unknown word).
- Use a dictionary to verify the meaning guessed by using the surrounding words.
| Number: LAFS.1.L.3.AP.4b | Category: Access Points |
| Date Adopted or Revised: 06/14 | Cluster: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use |