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Bones, Casts, and Context: Verify the Script

Students verify word meanings in a dinosaur museum audio guide by testing context, comparing dictionary senses, and revising guesses.

Grade 7ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.7.4.d

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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 7
Subject
ELA
Question types
Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students test guessed word meanings against specific details in an audio-guide script.
  • Students select dictionary senses that fit a word’s grammar and surrounding context.
  • Students explain how context and dictionary evidence confirm or revise an initial guess.

How to use

Have students read the script and test meanings before consulting the supplied dictionary notes. Discuss why a familiar definition may not fit a particular sentence.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.7.4.d

Check a guessed word meaning by testing it in context or looking it up in a dictionary.

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Bones, Casts, and Context: Verify the Script

Test proposed meanings against an audio guide and dictionary entries.

Test Meanings in Context

Read this original script for a fictional museum exhibit. For each meaning check, use the surrounding details rather than the dinosaur topic alone.

What the Skeleton Can Tell Us

1Narrator: Welcome to the dinosaur gallery. The skeleton ahead looks ready to step off its platform, but its pose is the result of careful work. Museum workers mounted the skeleton on a metal framework. Thin supports hold the bones above the platform. Look closely at the ribs before moving to the next stop.

2Narrator: The pale rib near the front is a cast. Workers made this copy in a mold rather than placing the original fossil on display. The label identifies which pieces are copies, so visitors can distinguish them from original material. A copy can preserve an original bone’s shape without being made of the same substance.

3Narrator: Notice the articulated hind leg. Its bones are arranged at their joints, showing how the upper leg, lower leg, and foot connect. This arrangement does not mean the animal was found standing upright. Fossils may be separated before discovery, and workers must study their positions before assembling a display.

4Narrator: Now examine the smaller case. The evidence here is fragmentary: only part of a jaw and a few teeth were recovered. Researchers inferred that this dinosaur ate plants by studying features of those teeth and comparing them with other evidence. They did not watch the animal feed. The label separates the recovered pieces from the interpretation based on them.

5Narrator: Beside the case is a restoration of the animal’s head. Here, restoration means a reconstruction of its likely appearance, not a repaired fossil. Solid outlines show features supported by the recovered pieces; lighter lines mark details that are less certain. The artist’s image helps visitors imagine a living animal while keeping gaps in the evidence visible.

6Narrator: Finally, compare the model with the skeleton. The model is drawn to scale, so its body parts keep the same proportions even though the whole image is smaller. Do not confuse scale here with a small plate covering an animal’s skin. Before leaving, check how each label distinguishes what was recovered, what was copied, and what was interpreted.

1.
A listener guesses that mounted means “climbed onto.” Which replacement best survives a check against paragraph 1?
  • A. Workers climbed the skeleton using the framework.
  • B. Workers carried the skeleton past the framework.
  • C. Workers discovered the skeleton beneath the framework.
  • D. Workers secured the skeleton to the framework.
2.
In paragraph 1, underline the sentence that identifies the supports’ job and therefore helps verify the meaning of mounted.

Narrator: Welcome to the dinosaur gallery.The skeleton ahead looks ready to step off its platform, but its pose is the result of careful work.Museum workers mounted the skeleton on a metal framework.Thin supports hold the bones above the platform.Look closely at the ribs before moving to the next stop.

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