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Definition of Contextualize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contextualize
Literary usage of Contextualize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. By the People... U.S. Government Structure: An English As a Second Language Text (1994)
"When teaching vocabulary, you should try to contextualize the words as much as
... Another way to contextualize is to give examples or situations of how the ..."
2. Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males: Closing the Achievement Gapby Alfred W. Tatum by Alfred W. Tatum (2005)
"The goal was to contextualize the word study instruction and not teach words in
isolation. The answer to these students' difficulties at the word level did ..."
3. Inventing a Classroom: Life in a Bilingual, Whole Language Learning Community by Kathryn F. Whitmore, Caryl G. Crowell (1994)
"This chapter describes the routine of these literacy events and examples of
literacy strategy lessons, in order to better contextualize the critical events ..."
4. America's Curious Botanist: A Tercentennial Reappraisal of John Bartram by Nancy Everill Hoffmann, John C. Van Horne (2004)
"... Journey to Onondaga in Context The focus of this paper is to contextualize
John Bartram's role in his 1743 expedition to Onondaga (near Syracuse), ..."
5. The Cornerstone of Development: Integrating Environmental, Social, and by Jamie Schnurr, Susan Holtz (1998)
"Increasingly accurate and useful knowledge, skills, and values evolve as we
encounter data; organize, refine, and contextualize them; and internalize them ..."
6. Growing Readers: Units Of Study In The Primary Classroom by Kathy Collins (2004)
"We must always contextualize the work we do in word study with the work that
readers and writers do in their own texts. Interactive Writing During an ..."
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