NY Next Generation ELA 9-10L4d
The Standard
Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
New York State Next Generation English Language Arts Learning Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students verify a preliminary meaning for an unfamiliar or multiple-meaning word or phrase. They test the inference against broader context, dictionaries, or specialized references and revise when evidence requires it.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student records an initial interpretation and chooses a source capable of testing its contextual sense. The student weighs confirming and conflicting evidence and explains the final verified meaning.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may equate finding the word in a dictionary with verifying the correct sense. They may ignore contradictory context, disciplinary usage, or part of speech because one entry resembles the initial guess.
How to Assess It
- Give students a discipline-specific term with two plausible senses. Ask them to infer, verify through context and reference evidence, and document any revision.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Complete verification dossiers with preliminary sense, contextual prediction, reference evidence, contradiction check, revision, and final definition.
Ask, ‘Which evidence could falsify your first interpretation, and which source is most likely to provide it?’
Play Sense Verification Hearing by defending or revising meanings after new textual and reference evidence appears.
Verify a consequential term in a policy, contract, or scientific claim before summarizing its implications.
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Related Standards
- 7L4.d
Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
- 6L4.d
Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
- 8L4.d
Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
- 3R4
Determine the meaning of words, phrases, figurative language, and academic and content-specific words.
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