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Using Various Strategies in Decoding The Meaning of Words: Lesson

This lesson introduces various strategies for determining the meaning of unfamiliar words using context clues. It discusses the different types of context clues including definition/restatement, synonym, antonym, and examples. Learners are given examples and asked to identify which type of context clue is being used in each sentence. The goal is to help readers understand new vocabulary without having to use a dictionary by analyzing the context surrounding unfamiliar words.

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Using Various Strategies in Decoding The Meaning of Words: Lesson

This lesson introduces various strategies for determining the meaning of unfamiliar words using context clues. It discusses the different types of context clues including definition/restatement, synonym, antonym, and examples. Learners are given examples and asked to identify which type of context clue is being used in each sentence. The goal is to help readers understand new vocabulary without having to use a dictionary by analyzing the context surrounding unfamiliar words.

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Lesson

Using Various Strategies In Decoding The


1 Meaning Of Words

What I Need to Know

In this lesson, you will be acquainted with various strategies in decoding the meaning
words through the use of context clues. You will also familiarize the types of context clues and
how each type is to be used.

What’s New

Activity 1: Be a word detective!

Read silently the paragraph below and answer the questions that follow.

Bangkok known as Krun Thep, which is Thai for “City of Angels,” beckons with its
golden roofed temples and spicily curried cuisine. Seven million visitors come to
Thailand each year spending an average of six to seven days because there is so
much to see and to relish in this “Exotic Orient” as one enamored traveler dubbed
the country. (Voyages in Communication 8, p127.)

1. What are the words which you think are difficult or unfamiliar to you?

2. What makes those words difficult to understand?

3. What will you do if you do not understand the words that you are reading?

What Is It

Every time you read, listen, or watch something and you find words that are new
to you and sometimes you find them difficult to understand. In order to understand those
difficult words, you use dictionary to look for the meaning of those words. But, what if you
do not have dictionary? What is the best thing to do?
There is a best way not to hassle yourself from doing so. You can use Context
Clues. Context clues are hints in the passage, paragraph or individual sentence that, if
considered, can tell you the meaning of a word you are not familiar with.
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Types of Context clues

Knowing the various types of context clues can help you understand unfamiliar
and difficult words in context better. It can also make your reading and listening journey
more fun and memorable by learning new words.

Context clues on Definition or Restatement


The meaning of the vocabulary word is in the sentences itself, usually following
the vocabulary word.

Context clues on Synonym


The sentence uses a similar word to help explain the meaning of the
vocabulary word.
Context clues on Antonym
The sentence uses a word with an opposite definition to give the meaning of
the vocabulary word.
Context clues on Examples
This type of context clue uses examples to help the reader infer the meaning of
the vocabulary word. Words like including, such as, for example, point out example
clues.

What’s More
Activity 3 – Let’s identify!

Identify each sentence below if it has a context clue on definition, synonym,


antonym, or examples. Write you answer on the space provided before each number.

1. The boxing coach punished the team’s duplicity or


deceitfulness after they admitted to using steroids to boost
their batting averages.

2. Jayson’s– crafty dishonesty – caused him to steal his


co-worker’s pensions by funneling their money into an
offshore account.

3. It was your duplicity that caused me to break up wth you!


Had you been honest, I wouldn’t have felt the need.

4. Her duplicity involved lowering her employee’s salaries,


increasing their stock options, and then stealing the
money she saved by doing so.
QUARTER 4 – MODULE 3
VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
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