Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues (Homophones and Homographs)

NameDateCOURSE: Destination Reading IVUNIT 22: Our Study of Space: Expandingor Just Expending?TMVocabulary Strategy: Context Clues(Homophones and Homographs)Complete the following items to practice the vocabularystrategy for this unit.Use context clues to determine the meanings of each pair ofhomophones or homographs. For each word, identify its part ofspeech and its meaning.LearningObjective:• Use context cluesto determinethe meanings ofhomophones andhomographs.1. When the wind began to pick up, Silas began to wind the string of his kitearound the spindle.Wind is athat means.© 2008 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.Your Turn is a trademark of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.Wind is athat means.2. For days after Andrew learned he had won the scholarship to music camp,he wandered around in a happy daze.Days is athat means.Daze is athat means.DestinationReading

NameDateTM3. Otters do not use their muscles to open the tightly closed shells of theirfavorite mussels; instead, they bang the shellfish against rocks.Muscles is athat means.Mussels is athat means.4. The researcher asked the students to survey the area that had beenaffected by the hurricane. Then she had each of them fill out a surveyasking questions about their thoughts and feelings.Survey is athat means.Survey is athat means.5. Layla’s father, who had been in the navy, taught her how to tie a good knot.A good knot equalled a taut sail—one that wouldn’t sag while they weresailing.Taught is athat means.Taut is anthat means.© 2008 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.Your Turn is a trademark of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.DestinationReading

NameDateTM6. “I’ll be done in a minute,” Bao said, but Jordan knew it would take forever topick up the many minute staples that had spilled onto the floor. They wereso small that Jordan could hardly see them on the carpet.Minute is athat means.Minute is anthat means.© 2008 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.Your Turn is a trademark of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.7. Neema chased her brother Ammon through the maze of stalls at thebazaar, where merchants sold everything from fruit to colorful clothing toperfume. She followed him down a narrow street and found he had stoppedin front of a door with a tree painted on it. “That’s bizarre,” she thought. “Itlooks just like the drawing Ammon made yesterday.”Bazaar is athat means.Bizarre is anthat means.DestinationReading