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Guessing Meanings from Contexts

Guessing Meanings from Contexts. Vocabulary Knowledge for Effective Reading. Look it up in he dictionary? Ask your friend? Ask your teacher? Try to guess what it means?. What do you do when you find difficult words in your reading?. Guessing is faster; it doesn’t interrupt your reading

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Guessing Meanings from Contexts

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  1. Guessing Meanings from Contexts Vocabulary Knowledge for Effective Reading

  2. Look it up in he dictionary? • Ask your friend? • Ask your teacher? • Try to guess what it means? What do you do when you find difficult words in your reading?

  3. Guessing is faster; it doesn’t interrupt your reading • Helps your comprehension because you stay focused on the general sense • Helps build vocabulary since you are more likely to remember the words • Allows you to enjoy your reading more The best strategy is: try to guess!

  4. Use the context (the text surrounding the words) • Use the grammatical structure of the sentence and decide the word’s parts of speech • Recognize the words that connect ideas (pronoun, synonym, antonym) How to guess the unknown words?

  5. When you come to a new country, it is important to know the zap of the people in that country to help you communicate with them. Zap: language From the context, guess the meaning of the underlined word!

  6. You should dry the soggy towel now because there is sunlight. Otherwise, it will take a long time to dry. Soggy: adjective, it means wet Use the grammar of the sentence to guess the unknown word

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