Title: Use your inside and outside word strategies - Individual Assignment
Course: Reading Summer School

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Use your inside and outside the word strategies to figure out unknown words in this movie review of Toy Story III. A movie review explains one person's opinion of the quality of a movie and either encourages or discourages other people from seeing the movie.

Listen along with the Toy Story III mp3 file if you have been given a fluency goal or if your Lexile level is below 1025.

While you read:

1. Read the entire article through one time or listen to the Mp3 file and follow along.
2. Reread the article noting at least five words for which you are unsure of the meaning of the word as it is used in the article. Write these words in your notebook or download and print the "Thinking Sheet" that will guide you through this activity.
3. As you look at the word, decide if inside the word strategies or outside the word strategies are appropriate and tell why you think so.
4. Give your best guess as to the meaning of the word.
5. Check your best guess in context. That means read your best guess in place of the unknown word.
6. If you are not sure of a word meaning, talk to a friend or ask a teacher, but try it on your own first.
7. Check the meaning of the word in the on-line dictionary.