After You Read

Vocabulary – Strategy 2: Using Context to Determine Meaning

1.

The word GENRE has several synonyms. In each sentence below, indicate the word that could be replaced by GENRE. The correct answers will turn blue when you click on them.

  1. The reviewer, Jordan, has played almost every kind of music.
  2. Folk music is a style Jordan expected to hear from the Smashing Beats.
  3. What category does the song “Red River Valley” belong to?
  4. In this book, every chapter scaffolds, or supports, a different sort of writing.
2.

The word BEAT has several meanings. In each sentence below, indicate the word that could be replaced by BEAT. The correct answers will turn blue when you click on them.

  1. You can hear the rhythm of a song clearly on a drum.
  2. The drummer hit his instruments with drumsticks.
  3. Some older folks left early. Jordan guessed they were tired.
  4. Some younger people’s hearts pounded faster when they met the good-looking musicians.