Year 6 · English · Reading for SATs · Lesson 3

Vocabulary in context

SATs reading vocabulary: working out word meanings from context and word parts, find-and-copy word questions, and the effect of word choice, using an original text.

13-minute video lesson

Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.

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What your child will learn

Use context to explain word meanings
Find words with a given meaning
Use word parts as clues
Explain the effect of word choice

The method

Find it.
Read around it.
Suggest meaning.
Swap in.

Key words: vocabulary, context, synonym, word choice.

Worked examples

The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.

Question 1

What does ‘context’ mean?

Step 1: Around

Answer: the words and sentences around a word

Question 2

‘glancing anxiously at the sea’. What does ‘anxiously’ mean?

Step 1: w...

Answer: in a worried way

Question 3

‘glancing anxiously’. What does ‘glancing’ mean?

Step 1: Quick

Answer: looking quickly