This afternoon, the 5th grader comes to me for homework help after school at St. Urban’s. It’s a grammar review, and she couldn’t make sense of the directions for question #3.
The directions: “Use context clues to determine the meaning of the bolded word below.”
These directions were difficult to understand because the sentence is: “The hunter killed several deer in order to have enough venison to feed his family during the long, cold winter.”
The idea that someone wouldn’t know what venison meant was inconceivable to the poor kid.
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