How can understanding unknown words in a story help us enjoy and understand the story better?
Adaptive Perseverance: Students will persistently engage with challenging words and context clues to uncover meanings.
Learner’s Mindset: Encourage an eagerness to discover and understand new words, contributing to lifelong learning.
Communication: Students will share their interpretations and understandings of unknown words with peers.
Critical Thinking: Analyze text and images to deduce the meanings of unfamiliar words.
Collaboration: Work together to discuss and agree on the meanings of unknown words in the story.
What clues in the story can help us figure out unknown words?
How does learning the meaning of a new word change our understanding of the story?
Can the pictures in the story help us understand what unknown words mean?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.4: Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
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