2. Guessing Meaning from Context More practice by Jonathan Smith

3. Look at this sentence… Most of us learn basic facts about the human brain in our middle or high school instillik classes. What does instillik mean?

4. Instillik? What do you do when you are reading a text and you do not understand a specific word? Look it up in the dictionary? –Click on the dictionary below to try it now.

5. Dictionaries help? Okay, so instillik is not a word in English.  Even if the word is in the dictionary, there are problems… Dictionaries slow down your reading speed. Sometimes the definition is confusing.  Example: instillik – study of living processes in flora and fauna. What does the word flora mean? How does the definition relate to the text you are reading?

6. How to guess meaning from context… Step 1: Deduction –What does the sentence concern? Which words does the unknown word seem to relate to? Most of us learn basic facts about the human brain in our middle or high school instillik classes. – Instillik relates to classes, human brain, and facts. How? Instillik is a type of class in high school. Instillik classes are about the brain. We learn facts about the brain in instilli k classes.

7. How to guess meaning from context… Step 2 - Part of Speech –What part of speech is instillik? Is it a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb? Instillik modifies the noun classes. What part of speech modifies a noun? ADJECTIVE! –Click here to read more about adjectives.here

8. How to guess meaning from context… Step 3 - Guess synonyms –What words could fit in the place of instillik? Types of classes – math, science, reading. Study of the brain? –Science class.

9. Instillik is… Can you guess it now? –Instillik = biology Most of us learn basic facts about the human brain in our middle or high school biology classes.

10. Guessing Meaning from Context…   Saves time   Helps you learn more about the text   Improves your vocabulary – –For another fun activity about guessing meaning from context, click here.here