Think aloud with context clues
Read a sentence with a tricky word and say your thinking out loud: "It says the puppy was famished and gobbled its food in seconds. So famished must mean really hungry!" Then hand kids the next sentence to try.
Why it works: handing over the work step by step, from teacher to student, is one of the most widely used teaching frameworks (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
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