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Reading for Vocabulary
If you understand what you’re reading about, you can start to
learn vocabulary (new or hard) words.
Vocabulary words are words you skipped when reading before.
How to Read Vocabulary Words
- Look at the first paragraph. Pick out a vocabulary word.
- Choose a small part of the word that isn’t hard. Say that small
part aloud.
- Look at the rest of the word. Think of the sound
of the letters. Try to say the rest of the word.
- Read the sentence the vocabulary word is in. Does the vocabulary
word fit in the sentence?
- If it fits, you’ve read the vocabulary word!
- Pick out four more vocabulary words. Use these steps to read them.
How to Build up Your Vocabulary
- Even people who went to school for many years come across new or hard
words. If you’re not sure what a word means, do what they do:
get a dictionary (paperback or online) and look up vocabulary words.
- If you use a dictionary a lot, you’ll get faster at looking
up words.
- The more words you look up, the easier it’ll be to recognize
the roots (main parts) of words.
- It’s important to accept that building a good vocabulary is
something that people do their whole lives!
- Many people keep a list of vocabulary words, the word meanings, and
where they saw the word.
Reading for vocabulary will improve your reading comprehension.
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