Skills and Strategies for enjoying reading

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Skills and Strategies for enjoying reading
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Question

• What should you do if you dont know the meaning
  of a word?

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Strategy to guess words

• Filter out unimportant unknown words
• Guess words from context
• Guess words by recognizing word parts
• Guess based on conjunctions
• Use a dictionary (when you cant guess, or to
  check your guess is correct)

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1. Skip/filter words

• I grew up in Hastings, New Zealand.
• We can guess Hastings is a place in New Zealand.
  It probably doesnt matter exactly where.

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• Harry Potter was selected to play on the quiddich
  team.

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2. Establish context to guess words

• I didnt have time for lunch or dinner, I feel
  famished .
• ? What does famished mean?
• (This is the most useful way to learn new words!)
• a. Place
• b. People involved
• c. Relationship between people

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3a. Guess by recognizing parts of the word

• We know what a bicycle is therefore
• Uni 1 so a unicycle is a ________________.
• Tri 3 so a tricycle is a _________________.
• Can you guess the meaning of bi?

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3b Compound Words

• If you think about the meaning of the individual
  words that make up the compound word you may be
  able to guess the meaning.
• a. Handbag
• b. Firefly
• c. Redhead
• D. Keyhole

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handbag
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firefly
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redhead
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keyhole
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5 Conjunctions Conjunctions show how
information is related.

• My wifes paintings are beautiful however, mine
  are grotesque!
• b. Mike is very gregarious, or outgoing.
• c. Mike is very gregarious, but his wife is very
  introverted

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Strategy to guess words

• Filter out unimportant unknown words
• Guess words from context
• Guess words by recognizing word parts
• Guess based on conjunctions

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Please translate?

• He reached the goal?

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7 results for goal

• the result or achievement toward which effort is
  directed aim end.
• the end point in a race.
• a pole, line, or other marker by which such a
  point is indicated.
• an area, basket, cage, or other object or
  structure toward or into which players of various
  games attempt to throw, carry, kick, hit, or
  drive a ball, puck, etc., to score a point or
  points.

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Questions?
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