The students in Mrs. Bowles 4th grade class have been learning about context clues. Today we used Nearpod to practice with this skill. Nearpod is an icon on the Clever screen (clever.com/in/henrico), so it’s easy for students to access and enter the lesson code. In this Nearpod, students watched a quick BrainPop video on context clues. We then used a collaborate board to complete a sentence. In the next sentence, students were given more context and therefore had similar answers when they filled in the blank. In the following slides, students read a sentence and used the highlighter tool to highlight the clues that could help them figure out the meaning of the vocabulary word. Next the students had a quiz question in which they had to select what they thought the word meant. We then went back to the sentence to plug that word in place of the vocabulary word and see if the sentence still made since. We also discussed what part of speech that vocabulary word was in the sentence. The kids did a great job practicing with this skill.
If you’d like to try this Nearpod in your classroom, you can preview the Nearpod or download the Nearpod by clicking these links.
