Curriculum

Check understanding

• Use context clues (the overall meaning of a sentence, a word’s position or function) to infer the meaning of an unfamiliar word
• Break down a word using known Greek or Latin roots and affixes to deduce its meaning (e.g., 'malevolent' = mal- (bad) + volent (wishing))
• Look up a word in a dictionary to verify or refine an inferred meaning

“When your child encounters an unfamiliar word in a book or article, can they work out its meaning using context clues, word roots, or a dictionary — and then check whether their guess was right?”