Uses a variety of strategies to understand unfamiliar vocabulary found in narrative text, technical reading, and literary text
Students must be able to use a variety of strategies to understand unfamiliar vocabulary found in narrative text, informational text, technical reading, and literary text. This includes the following:
- Using structural analysis to decode words (prefixes, suffixes, inflectional endings)
- Using knowledge of root words, word origins, derivations, synonyms, antonyms, and idioms to determine the meanings of vocabulary found in narrative texts, informational texts, technical reading, and literary text
- Understand the meaning of most words in a text
- Using a variety of strategies to learn word meanings
- Using a variety of strategies to understand the meaning of specialized and technical terms and idiomatic and figurative terms
- Demonstrating flexibility in extending the meaning of words