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4. Guide students through Step 3 of the strategy.Teacher:Step 3 asks us what we think the word means. With your partner, use the contextclues and word part clues to come up with a definition. Write your answers underStep 3.Allow students a few minutes to discuss and write. They should be able to locate and write thedefinition clue “added to a country”.Accept responses.Raise your hand if you can give me a definition.That’s right, we found a definition context clue that gives us the definition! So let’stry it in our sentence.5. Guide students as they complete Step 4, trying the word in a sentence to see whether it makes sense.Teacher:Please read the sentence with our definition inserted, Marcus.Student:“This ambassador’s job was to ask that Texas be added to the country.”Teacher:Does that make sense?Students:Yes.6. Have students verify their answer using a dictionary.Teacher:OK, we feel pretty confident because our context clue was a definition clue, but let’slook it up in the dictionary, just to make sure. Gina, would you look on page 22 andread us the definition of annex?Student:Annex means “to take over a territory and incorporate it with another country or state”.Teacher:We can assume that incorporate means “add,” so does our definition still make sense?Students:Yes.Teacher:Yes, it does. Nice work.7. Following the same procedure as above, lead the students through each step of the worksheet, onesection at a time. This time students will find the meaning of a second word (disapproved). Makesure that students understand that each worksheet is used to find the definition for one word.The Reading Teacher’s Sourcebook 219