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Catch the Context
Meaning Through Reading
CHOICES offers a daily Word Collection designed to develop students' vocabulary. The Word Collection selects three words from the Overview and Biography, which the staff writes up on the board.
A strategy that's often used in this scenario is to leave the space beside this word blank.
- When the word is encountered in the text the staff has the students discuss possible meanings in pairs or small groups
- After 10 seconds the staff collects up to seven possible definitions.
- Staff should emphasize likely meanings based on inferences from the context, i.e. can they catch the meaning from the context.
- Have the class decide which definition is the most likely, and then reveal the definition from the Word Collection provided!
