*Use pictures, illustrations, and diagrams *Ask someone to define the word for you *Use dictionaries, thesauruses, and glossaries as tools Goal: Expand.
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*Use pictures, illustrations, and diagrams
*Ask someone to define the word for you
*Use dictionaries, thesauruses, and glossaries as tools
Goal: Expand VocabularyBy: Kyla Kresl
Use Pictures, Illustrations, and Diagrams•Use the story and background knowledge
while paying attention to pictures, illustrations, and diagrams to increase your vocabulary.▫Illustrations might give clues about the
meaning of the words and text.
Read a picture book or nonfiction book and stop when you come to a word you don’t know.
•Look at the picture to see if you can figure out what it means.
• Figure out the meaning based on your background knowledge and what is in the picture.
• Write the word in your word collector and/or celebrate figuring out the word.
Ask Someone to Define the Word for You•If you have a question about the meaning
of a word, you should ask someone if they know what the word means.▫Ask other students first before going to an
adult.
forpd.ucf.edu/strategies/stratsq4r.html
•Ask these types of questions if you are stuck on a word:
•What is the word?•What is the word like?•What are some examples of this word being used in a sentence?
•Now you can…
•go back and substitute the word.•read again using the definition.
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Use Dictionaries, Thesauruses, and Glossaries as Tools• There are many ways to use word-learning
tools to understand words and texts that you read.
•Dictionaries are used to find the meaning of a word.
•Thesauruses are used to find synonyms and antonyms of words.▫Dictionaries and thesauruses can also be
found online.•Glossaries are in the back of nonfiction books
and define bold faced words.
*Dictionaries have a definition of the word and it is used in different sentences.
*Thesauruses have synonyms of words. You can plug synonyms of the word into the text and see what other words could have been written instead.
• Do some together as a class! Get out your books and learn some new words!
www.ebookee.com/Collins-English-Dictionary-an...
Online Resource
•Here is an online resource, a visual thesaurus!
•This gives synonyms and antonyms of the word in different forms:▫Nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs
▫Try Now!
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