Introduction
Now it's your turn to read through a short passage, using context clues to discover the meanings of new words. You might find it helpful to use Common Types of Context Clues, from the previous topic while reading the following passage.
Instructions
 Crow Brings the Daylight
Read Crow Brings Daylight, concentrating on defining the words in italics and trying to figure out what type of context clue is provided. |
When you have finished reading, fill in the "Using Context Clues" table. The words you need to define using context clues are indicated in italics.
Back in the beginning, when the world was still new, the Inuit lived in darkness in their home in the vastness and emptiness of the huge icy north. They had never heard of daylight, spending their days in darkness, so when Crow, who traveled back and forth between the lands in the north and the south, described daylight to them, they did not believe it. The younger people, however, were fascinated by the story of the light that the lands to the south. They loved how the light covered everything across the southern lands in its golden glow. They made Crow tell his tales over and over until they knew them by heart. "Imagine, we could hunt far and wide," they told each other. "And hunt longer," others replied. "Yes, and see the polar bear before it attacks," still others agreed. Soon their yearning for daylight was so strong that the Inuit people begged Crow to bring it to them. Crow shook his head. "I am too old," he told them. "The daylight is very far away. I can no longer go so far." But the pleadings of the people made him reconsider, and finally he agreed to make the long journey to the south. |
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| Note: The meaning does not need to be exact, but it should be close. You may use more than one context clue to decipher the meaning of an unfamiliar word. For example, when determining the meaning of the word gilded you may have noticed that there was a suffix - ed, and you may have also inferred its meaning from the next sentence. |
