Welcome to

Word Work Wednesday

Please turn to the Daily Activities section of your

Reading Notebook.

Gather your Context Clues Bell Work.

Be ready to start today’s Word Work.

Be ready to review and share your work.

Be ready to ask (and answer) questions.

Learning Scale

4 I can use multiple vocabulary strategies on various types of grade-level text and teach them to someone else.

3 I can use multiple vocabulary strategies on various types of grade-level text.

2 I need help using one or more vocabulary strategies when I read.

1 I don’t know what vocabulary strategies are.

What do you do when you’re reading and you come to a word you don’t know?

WORDS Why be afraid of them?

Why avoid

them?

Why let

words

intimidate us?

Instead, embrace words. Own words. Use words.

Lots of them…..!

Words are simply combinations of letters put together to make meaning.

Bigger words = more combinations of letters

a + u + t + o = self auto =

automobile

m + o + b + i + l + e = mobile = to move

auto + mobile = self moving

How do we figure out unknown/unfamiliar words?

When I see a word I don’t know, I ask myself two questions:

1. Do I see any word parts that I recognize?

2. Does the word look like any word I’ve ever seen or heard before? (making connections…..using background knowledge)

Sometimes we need to ask ourselves more questions:

1. What’s the topic I’m reading about?

2. How is the word being used with that topic?

3. What are the context clues around the unknown word?

4. What’s the part of speech of the unknown word? *This helps when I’m taking a test.

Let’s Practice…..

Word: successive

1. Do I recognize any part of this word? 2. Does this word look like any word I’ve seen or heard before?

Word: causative

1. Do I recognize any part of this word?

2. Does this word look like any word I’ve seen or heard before?

• caus + a + t + ive = causative

• success + ive = successive

Let’s give it a try….

Bell Work Vocabulary

affinity

fledgling

hackneyed

incessant

opulence

proximity

sagacious

supplant

unassailable

voluminous

Achieve3000 Vocabulary

anthropology

component

hieroglyph

mummification

replica

tactile

Please turn to the Daily Activities section of your Reading Notebook and write these two lists.