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Reading Strategy 3

“Figure out unknown words.”

Good readers become aware of and use language concepts in order to improve fluency and comprehension.

Header-Reading-Activities

  • Bookmark
  • Picture Walk
  • Sort and Predict
  • Think Aloud
  • Vocabulary Rating
  • Vocabulary Self-Collection
  • Word Wall
Primary
  • Bats at the Library
  • Clic Clac Meuh!
  • Click, Clack, Moo
  • In My Heart
  • Peace Is an Offering
  • Premier jour d’école
  • Frisson l’écureuil
  • Salmon Creek
  • The Most Magnificent Thing

Intermediate
  • La belle lisse poire
  • Out of My Mind
  • Shi-shi-etko
 Secondary
  • The Emperor of Maladies
  • Navigating Panama Canal North
  • The Trouble with Testosterone
  • To This Day
  • Vaccine Effectiveness
  • Way Home
  • We Are All Born Free
teacher hints

Teach dictionary skills and glossary use.

Some ways students may figure out unknown words:

• Phonemic knowledge
• Word chunking (looking for parts of words)
• Syllabification
• Root words, prefixes, suffixes and common letter clusters
• Word families
• Spelling patterns
• Compound words
• Sight words
• Context clues
• Picture clues
• Read past the unknown word and guess
• Re-read the part that doesn't make sense
• Ask for help

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