Students in the tenth grade of the Common Core Language Arts program will be required to acquire the skills to:
– Decide or explain the definition of unfamiliar and various-meaning words and phrases from grades 9–10 reading and content, utilizing a variety of strategies.
– Utilize the surrounding information to infer the meaning of a word or phrase.
– Find the definition of words by examining their opposites in the given context.
– Utilize the surrounding information to determine the definition of a term
– Recognize and accurately apply variations in word forms that signal various meanings or grammatical functions (e.g., criticize, criticism, critical; explore, exploration).
– Look up general and specific resources such as dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauruses in both physical and digital formats to discover how to say a word or figure out its exact definition, type of word, or origins.
Use the exercises provided in this ebook to help your students improve these skills.
