At Home in the World (Using Context Clues)-Inside C Unit 4 pp. 240-1

Watch the video to help you answer the questions! What Stinks? Read the short story before answering the questions. Opening the door into my house was like bumping into a wall of the nastiest smell in the whole world. “Mom?” I called. There was no answer, so I proceeded to the kitchen in search of clues. Could it be rotten food in the refrigerator? Hesitantly, I pulled the refrigerator door open, but quickly realized that the odor wasn’t coming from the fridge. It was just too revolting to be rotting vegetables or rotten milk. “Dad?” I yelled. I was met with silence. The putrid smell seemed to be intensifying. I felt like my nose hairs were starting to singe and burn. “Sam?” I screamed in a much more desperate tone. Surely he would be home from school. While I waited for a reply, I crept slowly down the hall towards his bedroom. Pulling the front of my shirt over my nose, I rapped on his door, quietly at first, then with more trepidation. “Brother, you here?” I called. Yet again, no answer. Feeling defeated, I made my way back down the hall towards the kitchen and wondered what could be going on. The odor wasn’t like anything I had ever smelled before. Just as I placed my backpack on the back of the kitchen chair, my mom busted through the back door. “GET OUT!” she screeched. I didn’t even have a chance to respond. She clutched my arm and virtually threw me right out the back door. “Where have you been?” she said, with a sense of urgency in her voice. “Um, where have you been?” I retorted, “and what’s that terrible smell?” Just then, a truck pulled up in front of the house. “I drove to your school to pick you up because I didn’t want you to come home. I must have missed you. Dad and Sam are at the neighbors,” she replied. A man appeared at the back gate. “We’re here to investigate a gas leak,” he said. “A gas leak?” I mumbled. Wow! Gas really does stink, I thought. 1. What word can replace revolting in the reading passage? crazy uneasy disgusting fabulous 2. What strategy did you use to answer the previous question? Choose one of the bold faced words below, write it in the answer box and write how the author used that strategy to give you clues to the word's meaning. These arestrategiesyou can use to find the meaning of an unknown word:Definition - The definition is in the sentence (or sentences).Synonym or restatement - The word is restated in the sentence using a synonym.Antonym or what it is NOT- A vocabulary word is contrasted in a sentence to give a hint to the meaning.Inference - Meaning is not directly described but it can be inferred from the context of the sentence. 3. What do you think the wordsinge means? to burn to beocome damp to fall out to get dirty 4. What word could replace proceeded in the reading passage? paused continued stopped ran 5. How does the reading passage provide a context clue for the meaning of the word trepidation? by spelling it correctly by underlining the word by providing a synonym by providing an antonym