Understanding+New+Vocabulary

=**Strategies for Understanding New Vocabularymedia type="custom" key="7417101" ** =

“I saw this word in another book--it meant .....”
 * 1. || ** Make connections with the word ** || ** Text to Text **

“I heard a girl in the hall use this word. I think she meant....”
 * Text to Self **

“I saw this word in a newspaper article. || “Mute looks like mut in Spanish” ||
 * Text to World **
 * 2. || ** Similarities with native language ** || “**Cognates**”
 * 3. || ** Context clues-- **
 * look before and after the word for clues ** || Synonym

Definition

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