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How to teach New Vocabulary
Using Interesting or New Words Worksheet, students use this sheet to pull out unknown or interesting words from the story to learn new vocabulary.
While reading a fiction or informational text, your students will encounter many words that they don’t know. This worksheet helps your students to figure out what to do when they don’t know a word when they are reading independently.
Choose a story to read. As you read, write down words that you think are interesting, or that are new to you. Use the clues in the text, or the pictures, to help you understand what the words mean.
Other resources to use with this Interesting or New Words Worksheet
If you are using this worksheet, your students are probably learning about new vocabulary.
Use this Identifying Unknown Words in a Text Worksheet as an additional resource for your students.
Introduce this worksheet by listening to the Have Fun Teaching Context Clues Song. Next, write some made up words on the board in a sentence like “George ate a frigs and french fries.” Ask students what strategies they would take to figure out that unknown word. Then, students complete the worksheet independently or with a partner. Finally, students read and look for new words that they didn’t know before.
Be sure to check out more Context Clues Resources.
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