You’ve just been given the opportunity to make a donation to your favorite charity. You’ve been given a blank check! The only catch is that the donation amount must include the digits 5, 2, 8, 1,3,and 7, and ONLY those digits.
How will you place those digits on your blank check?
Tell the amount you will make the check out for, why you placed the digits where you did, and what charity will receive this generous donation.
Click the link to get the detective’s notebook and make some inferences! http://wpsu.org/games/wpsuGames_DetectivesNotebook/index.html
After you solve all of the questions, come back here and post a comment explaining what inferencing is. Be sure and also respond to a friend’s post- but make sure your response is about their comment about inferencing!
Context clues are clues that good readers use to find the meaning of unknown words. Good readers look for:
*Pictures
*Helping words
*Examples and definitions
*Punctuation
*Synonyms and antonyms
Practice context clues on the following websites-you may choose any activity. When you are done, post a comment and explain what you learned about CONTEXT CLUES.
http://www2.smarttutor.com/player/swf/RC_Context_Clues_L5_V1_T4a.swf