Vocabulary Strategies★

There are totally four major vocabulary strategies for students to get worked on as they can be able to have confidence and ease. To be a successful reader, students need to guess the meaning of words that are unknown from context cludes.However guessing might be slow and difficult at first, the goal of doing this is to reach a level of skill where guessing corresponds to what actually meant in the text. What you want to do next is making your original word cards about 1.5 inches by 1.2 inches, because learning from word cards strategy is the first meeting with the words and you will bw able to read and write naturally and successfully as you work on it. As English words are mixed with parts that are very useful to use as a kind of mnemonic and keyword technique when have unknown words, using word parts is effective way of learning neew vocabulary. While the guessing the meaning from a given context is one that provide access to the meaning, using a dictionary helps students to aquire new vocabulary.



Maiko Osawa