Developing Vocab

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Developing Vocab

Why understanding vocab is important, in school and around us

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How can learning new vocab help us?

It's important to learn new vocab to help us understand in the future. It helps us in - school - tests - every day lives - our socialising abilities Expanding our vocabulary can help us work out the meanings of other words, figure out the context of text as well as analyse it. To help understand we can use methods such as bug, and finding key words:

Analysing Text

To analyse text, you can use a method called BUG: 'Describe the affect of a multicoloured dog in this picture.' Command words and phrases are the words that help you and tell you how to answer the question. Knowing the meaning of the words can make you more confident when answering the question - you understand what it's telling you to do!

Examples of command words:

Analyse

Explain

Compare

Summarise

Quote

Describe

Justify

Plan

Annotate

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Show

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Evaluate

relate

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Reflection:

BUG the questionand key words in the text

Practice using the words

When unsure of the meaning, check

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Developed vocab

Teach others, use the vocab in every day life

Make reading a habit

Finally:

Examples of vocab you could use:

Reverberate

Impromptu

1. (of a loud noise) be repeated several times as an echo. "her deep booming laugh reverberated around the room 2. have continuing and serious effects. "the statements by the professor reverberated through the Capitol" Synonyms: - echo - repeat

1. done without being planned, organized, or rehearsed. "an impromptu press conference" Synonyms: - unrehearsed - unprepared