Komodo Dragons

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Komodo Dragons

• Context Clues
• By Kyle Wood
• 4th grade
• B. C. Central

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Context Clues

• The Komodo dragon sometimes eats flipzers, small,
  furry animals with long ears and puffy tails.
• What is a flipzer?

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How did you do that?

• You used context clues the words around an
  unknown word, to figure out what it meant.
• Context Clues are just the words in the sentence
  or even the whole paragraph that you DO know.

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How do authors do it?

• Explanations they explain it for you.
• Definitions means
• Descriptions tells you what it looks like or
  what it does
• Synonyms or Antonyms

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Reread p. 222

• Tell me what these words mean and how you figured
  it out.
• Scales
• Predators
• Forked
• Click here

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Main Idea
And Supporting Details

• What is a topic of a piece of writing?
• What is the main idea?
• How do writers support the main idea?

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How do I figure out the main idea?

• It may be stated in the first or last sentence of
  the paragraph.
• It may NOT be stated and you will INFER the main
  idea
• INFER means figure out.

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Review Page 224

• What is the main idea of this section?
• What does the author have to say about that
  topic?
• What supporting details are included?

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Your Mission

• Independent Practice
• Complete the CONTEXT CLUES chart on your
  worksheet.
• Use the words around the unknown words to figure
  them out.
• Complete the MAIN IDEA AND SUPPORTING DETAILS
  worksheet.
• Read carefully so you can get all 5 right!!!

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• Resources
• Used teacher edition of the Scott-Foresman