This is aligned the following California State Standards:
When provided with language cues, the student can pay attention to the entire object, a characteristic of the object, or an action the object can perform.
The student can demonstrate understanding of object names and the words designated for absent objects or people through eye gaze, movement, noise, or other interaction.
The student can make judgments about pairs of words with similar or different meanings.
By using surrounding context, the student is able to select the correct word or phrase when asked to complete a literal sentence from the text.
When using the surrounding context, the student can identify simple semantic definitions for unambiguous words in a text.