How students can analyze unfamiliar words
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What reading strategies may students use to analyze unfamiliar words?
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This solution describes ways in which students can analyze unfamiliar words when they are reading.
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Students can use cuing strategies in order to help them figure out unfamiliar words when they are reading. Cuing strategies include knowledge of syntax, semantics word and word meaning as well as letter sound associations. Teachers can guide students to use cuing strategies by reminding them to ask themselves: "Did it sound right? Did it make sense? Did the word look right?" The student can look for context clues to derive meaning. For example one way students may derive the meaning of an unfamiliar word is by looking at illustrations of sentences written in the book. Another way is to reread the unfamiliar word in a sentence to see if it sounds correct. For instance if a small child reads a sentence "Jack and Jill went up the hill" and ...
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