night vocabulary strategies
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Attacking Unknown or
Multiple-meaning Words
Strategies for
Comprehension
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Have you ever been reading and felt the way this guy looks?
Me too.
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What “hurdles” stand in our way of
understanding?
vocabulary
text structuretext lengthlack of context
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Let’s Tackle One Hurdle Today…
Voca
bulary
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Strategies for Attacking Words
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You have to have a
playbook..
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PLA
Y 1
PICK YOUR BRAIN.
What do you already know about the word?
If you don’t know what it means, you might be able to identify connotations.
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Cono-what?
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DENOTATION
• The dictionary definition
CONNOTATION
• The emotional overtones of a word
• Typically described using “positive”, “negative”, and “neutral”.
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WORD
CONNOTATION
DENOTATION
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PLA
Y 2
LOOK AT THE GUYS AROUND IT.
Context clues are important!
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PLA
Y 3
MAKE IT YOUR LAB RAT.
Dissect the word.
Prefixes?
Suffixes?
Roots?
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PLA
Y 4
MAKE FRIENDS WITH A DICTIONARY &
A THESAURUS.
Research:
• Denotation
• Part of speech
• Origin
• Synonyms
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HA
IL MA
RY!
It’s 4th down and none of the other plays have worked?
• Run ‘em all at the same time!
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Let’s try it.
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SA
MPLE
WO
RD
Let’s use “indifference” as our example today, we’ll practice against that opponent before we meet the other guys on the “field”.
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PLA
Y 1
What do you already know?
What connotations does the word carry?
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PLA
Y 2
Use context clues. Can you figure out
the definition by considering it’s
environment? Look at these passages:
• “So much violence; so much
indifference.”
• “Can one possibly view indifference
as a virtue?”
• “Yet, for the person who is
indifferent, his or her neighbor are of
no consequence.”
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PLA
Y 3
Look at the parts of the word.
Prefixes?
Suffixes?
Roots?
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PLA
Y 4
Pull out the big guns:
Look it up…
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HA
IL MA
RYDo you need the Hail
Mary?
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Let’s review…
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What are the strategies to use when you don’t “get” a word?
1.Use your brain; examine connotations.
2.Use context clues.
3.Dissect its parts.
4.Look it up.