Unlock the Meanings Practice the Strategy


OBJECTIVE Students will C practice using this unit’s context clues strategy to learn the mean- ings of incorporate and deduce.


GUIDE STUDENTS First, introduce the two vocabulary words incorporate and deduce, which come from the article about solving word problems on page 116. Have students pronounce the words and share any prior knowledge they have of each word. Next, have students review the Read, Look, Think, Predict, and Check steps on page 117.


PRACTICE


Have students complete page 118 on their own. When they have finished, discuss the ways that students’ prior knowledge helped them understand the words more clearly.


Unlock the Meanings


Practice the Strategy Here are two of the boldfaced words from the article on page 116. Use the context clues strategy on page 117 to figure out the meaning of each word.


Answers will vary.


Read the sentence that uses the word incorporate and some of the sentences around it.


Look for context clues to the word’s meaning. Which words explain How Something Is Done?


Think about the context clues. What other helpful information do you know? Predict a meaning for the word incorporate.


Unnecessary details are mixed in with important ones. If you mix details in with facts, you combine them. The word incorporate probably means “to put together.”


Check your Word Wisdom Dictionary to be sure of the meaning of the word incorporate. Write the definition here.


to include or make part of something deduce


Read the sentence that uses the word deduce and some of the sentences around it.


Look for context clues to the word’s meaning. Which words explain How Something Is Done?


By thinking carefully about a problem seems to tell how deduce is done. We often have to decide how to solve a math problem. The word deduce probably means “to reach a conclusion.”


to reach or draw a conclusion by reasoning


Think about the context clues. What other helpful information do you know? Predict a meaning for the word deduce.


Check your Word Wisdom Dictionary to be sure of the meaning of the word deduce. Write the definition here.


118 Measurement Part 1


Listenin Vocabulary Word Problems


Listening& g


Prepare five or six grade-appropriate math word problems of various levels of complexity or choose several from your math textbook. Have one or more volunteers read the problems aloud. After each problem is read, have students identify any words and phrases that provide necessary, important details. Have students also identify words and phrases that provide unnec- essary details that complicate the problem. Encourage students to tell how they might approach solving the problem. Encourage the use of the word utilize in the discussion.


T118 Unit 6 Measurement Part 1


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