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Grade 4 English Quarter 2 Week 1 Context Clues: Teacher Irish

This passage provides information about context clues, which are hints found within text that help readers understand unfamiliar words. It discusses two main types of context clues: definition/description clues, which directly define or explain the unfamiliar word, and example clues, which provide examples to help understand the word's meaning. The passage also includes sample sentences demonstrating how context clues can help determine a word's meaning.

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Grade 4 English Quarter 2 Week 1 Context Clues: Teacher Irish

This passage provides information about context clues, which are hints found within text that help readers understand unfamiliar words. It discusses two main types of context clues: definition/description clues, which directly define or explain the unfamiliar word, and example clues, which provide examples to help understand the word's meaning. The passage also includes sample sentences demonstrating how context clues can help determine a word's meaning.

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Grade 4

English
Quarter 2 Week 1
Context Clues

Teacher Irish
Context clues are hints found within a sentence,
paragraph, or passage that a reader can use to
understand the meanings of new or unfamiliar words.
There are several different types of context clues. Some
of them are:
1. DEFINITION / DESCRIPTION CLUE
2. EXAMPLE CLUES
DEFINITION / DESCRIPTION CLUE The new
term may be formally defined, or sufficient
explanation may be given within the sentence or in
the following sentence. Clues to definition include
“that is,” commas, dashes, and parentheses.

Example:
Sedentary individuals, people who are not very active,
often have poor health.
Word Denotative Meaning Connotative Meaning
cool low temperature popular; acceptable
mother Female parent loving, caring
home a place where one lives security, comfort, family
warm nearly hot comforting, friendly
the time from dusk to
night dawn when no sunlight darkness, silence
is visible
Denotation Connotation
My father is a loving and He is like a father to me.
hardworking man.
Dave saw a huge snake under I will never trust him. He
his bed. is a snake.
Sam’s chicken was the I’m afraid of the dark. I’m
heaviest in the fair. a big chicken.
Give the connotative meaning associated with
the following animals
Word Connotative Meaning
hen
owl
dove
shark
snake
Choose the word that best fits the sentence.

1. The father tenderly ____________at his newborn baby


through the window of the hospital nursery. (smiled,
smirked)
2. Jackie wore a/an ________________ dress to the party.
(ancient/invtage)
3. We're worried about Trish; she's lost so much weight that
she looks __________ . (slender,skinny)
Choose the word that best fits the sentence.

4. Daniel's doctor said, "I recommend a low-fat, low-


carbohydrate diet because you are becoming
__________ .”(fat, overweight)
5. Amanda’s _________way will allow her to live
comfortably for the rest of her life. (thrifty, miser)
Identify whether the underlined word in the sentence is
denotation or connotation.
1. This shirt is cheap enough for me to afford.
That t-shirt was so cheap, it pilled in a matter of weeks.
2. The stars twinkle in the sky.
There was a twinkle in her eye whenever she smiled.
3. Don’t trust him with any business. He is a player.
Jake is a player of our basketball team.
4. His work continued to pour in.
Do you want me to pour you a glass of water?
President Duterte's speech at the 75th UN
General Assembly Factual Texts

I am honored to address you today on


behalf of the Filipino people on the 75th
anniversary of the United Nations.
The invisible enemy that is COVID-19 has
Speech
brought about an unfamiliar global landscape
and unleashed a crisis without precedent. It
is the biggest test the world and the United
Nations faced since World War II.
Factual Texts

Recount
Example: Diary Entry
Declaration of PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE
Translation by Sulpicio GuevaraIn the town of Cavite-Viejo,
Province of Cavite, this 12th day of June 1898: Factual Texts
BEFORE ME, Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista, War
Counsellor and Special Delegate designated to proclaim and
solemnize this Declaration of Independence by the Dictatorial
Government of the Philippines, pursuant to, and by virtue of, a Historical
Decree issued by the Engregious Dictator Don Emilio Documents
Aguinaldo y Famy,
The undersigned assemblage of military chiefs and others
of the army who could not attend, as well as the
representatives of the various towns. Taking into account the
fact that the people of this country are already tired of bearing
the ominous joke of Spanish domination.
Factual Texts

Procedural/
Instructional
Text
Factual Texts

Persuasive
Text
Literary texts are texts that are
narrative, or tell a story, and contain
elements of fiction.
Literary Texts

Narrative Texts

Novel
Literary Texts

Narrative Texts
Fable
Literary Texts

Narrative Texts
Short Stories
Literary Texts

Narrative Texts
Poetry
Purpose of Text Types
Structures of Text Types
1. Description - describes a person, place, event, animal, etc.
2. Sequence/Instruction/Process - provides steps in
performing an action or order of event.
Have you ever made macaroni and cheese? It’s
simple! First, boil some water and make some
macaroni. Then, make your cheese sauce. After the
cheese sauce is ready, mix it with the macaroni.
Bake the entire thing in the oven. Finally, it’s time to
eat!
Studying for a Test
Believe it or not, as important as it is, many students do not know how to study for a test. Well,
studying for a test is easy. The first thing that you must do is take out your notes. Open your
notes up to the section that you are supposed to review. Read what you wrote in your notebook.
When you are done, close your notebook and see if you remember the ideas that you were
studying. Still don’t remember? Open your notebook back up a try again.
2. Sequence/Instruction/Process - provides steps in performing
an action or order of event.
First, Goldilocks sat in the great big, Papa Bear chair, but it was
too hard. Then, she sat in the medium sized, Mama Bear chair,
but it was too soft. Finally, she sat in the little, bitty, Baby Chair,
and it was just right.
3. Cause-and-Effect - seeks to identify what happened and how or
why it happened.

The audience could not hear the message of the speaker


because of the noise outside.
4. Compare/Contrast - provides similar and/or dissimilar
information about two persons, places, event, animals, etc.
Popular Sports
Football and baseball are two of the most popular sports
in the country. They have many things in common. For one,
they are both team sports, and they both require players to
advance to an end or “home” point on the playing field.
However, football requires players to carry the ball to the end
zone, whereas in baseball, it is the defending team that
controls the ball while it is in play.
Venn Diagram

Similarities
Football Baseball
• football requires • they are both it is the defending
players to carry team sports, and team that controls
the ball to the they both require the ball while it is in
end zone players to play.
advance to an
end or “home”
5. Problem/Solution - states the problem and the
(possible) solution.

Having a cold is no fun. Coughing makes it hard to fall


asleep. A sore throat is painful. Try some tea with honey in it.
Honey will soothe your throat.
Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system, much
larger than Earth. It is mostly made of hydrogen. It rotates more
quickly too. A day on Saturn is only about 10 Earth hours long.
But it takes about 30 of our years to make one full trip around
the sun.
Ted and Sam both wanted to drive the car. They started yelling
at each other. Their mom came and told them to stop fighting.
She told Ted he could drive the car today, and Sam would have
a turn tomorrow.
After the fire, thousands of people were left homeless. Many
escaped the fire with nothing except the clothes on their backs.
Providing all of these people with food, clean water, and shelter
was a huge task. Luckily, the city quickly formed a Relief and Aid
Society. This group started giving out the food donations that
were pouring in from other cities. The society built places for
people to live, gathered the tools that people needed to rebuild
their houses, and even vaccinated 64,000 people against
smallpox

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