Summary
Fuego's hottest new game show — Tip It or Dip It — challenges contestants to choose the correct meaning of a word in context or get dipped into a vat of green goo. The Electric Company joins to save a falsely accused contestant, demonstrating how context clues help readers choose the right meaning when a word has more than one.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
Many everyday words carry more than one meaning — and context is how you choose the right one.
- What word caused the biggest argument on the show? What were its two meanings, and how did the context make one correct?
- Try this: 'The pitcher stood on the mound.' What does 'pitcher' mean here? What clues in the sentence helped you decide?
- Why can multiple-meaning words cause confusion when reading? What is the best strategy to sort them out?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: multiple-meaning word, context clue, definition, meaning, sentence.
Try it: Look up the word 'bank' in a dictionary. Write three different meanings. Then write a different sentence for each meaning that makes it totally clear which definition you're using.