SUMMARY OF WHY

THIS PLAN
SHOULD BE USED/
WHAT NEEDS IT
MEETS

This plan can help your student learn how to use context clues and background
information to correctly identify the correct meaning of a vocabulary word.

STANDARD

Craft and Structure:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including
figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word
choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how
it sets a formal or informal tone).

OBJECTIVE

Your student will be able to create original sentences and draw pictures with new
vocabulary words

INSTRUCTIONAL
INPUT (TEACHING
THE SKILL)

Review what context clues are.

Context clues=
https://www.flocabulary.com/context-clues/ (fun video to watch)

Discuss with your

student these different
kinds of Context clues.
Use this chart as a
reference.

GUIDED PRACTICE
(PRACTICING THE

1. Provide the following passage to your student:

You will read through the passage with your student

SKILL TOGETHER)

You will then demonstrate how to use context clues to

identify the meaning of plundering- do a think- aloud
(tell your student which context clue you are using and
why)
You and your student will complete 2-4 words (or as
needed) together
Your student will complete rest by themselves
Make sure to ask your student for their logic- Why did
you chose the definition? What was the context clue?
One day a captain of a ship was on a journey home after
plundering a local village. Unfortunately, he was detained for a
while on his journey by a squall out on the ocean. More
unfortunate events ensued. It soon became apparent that the
squall was actually a mammoth sea monster. The sea monster
spoke to the captain and crew telling them that he would never let
them go home because they had plundered a town that the sea
monster was meant to protect. The crew was so scared that they
planned a mutinous overthrow of the captain. However, their
captain had a prodigious brain capable of all kinds of clever,
cunning tricks. The captain soon came up with a plan. He made a
hole bored into the middle of the ship. He then tricked the sea
monster into the hole, tempting him with loot from the plunder.
With the sea monster out of the ocean, his magical ocean powers
were useless. The crew then dispatched the deed of killing the sea

monster stowed away in the boat.

____________________enormous
____________________ enormous (2 of the words mean enormous)
____________________made a hole in
____________________brief, violent storm
____________________finished quickly
___________________demonstrating anger towards leadership
___________________to hold or keep; being held or kept
___________________looted; stolen by force

2. After the student has matched all words correctly, you will
model how to write the definition and draw a picture that
illustrates the word plunder in the DEFINITION/PICTURE
GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
You will then work on detained and mutinous together
Student will finish form by themselves
Word
Plundered
(verb)

Detained

Definition

Picture

(verb)

Mutinous
(adjective)

Squall
(noun)

Prodigious
(adjective)

Dispatched
(verb)

Bored
(verb)

Mammoth

(adjective)

3. Help student create words with this sentence worksheet:

First you model how to make 1 sentence, then do 2 together,
student will complete the rest by themselves.
Directions: For each vocabulary word, write an original sentence in the box.
Plundered
(verb)

Detained
(verb)

Mutinous
(adjective)

Squall

(noun)

Prodigious
(enormous)

Dispatched
(verb)

Bored
(verb)

Mammoth
(adjective)

INDEPENDENT
PRACTICE

Student will complete matching AT LEAST 3-4 words by themselves.

Student will finish filling out the picture graphic organizer

Student will complete the sentence worksheet

ASSESSMENT

Worksheets

LIST OF ADDITIONAL
WAYS THIS PLAN
COULD BE USED

You could create your own worksheets for various vocabulary words the student is
struggling with. You could also find an article online or in a newspaper and underline
words and have them use context clues to complete a vocab worksheet and sentence
worksheet