Words I Know Want to Know Worksheet

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How to teach New Vocabulary

Using Words I Know Want to Know Worksheet, students write down new words that they found while reading a new book 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 new book to read. As you read the book, write down new words that you find. Then, talk with others and look up the words to find out what they mean.

Other resources to use with this Words I Know Want to Know 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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