ESOL Rw/E3.5a Use variety of reading strategies to read/understand unfamiliar words
Rw/E3.5a Use a variety of reading strategies to help read and understand an increasing range of unfamiliar words
(i) Use a range of strategies to work out the meaning of unfamiliar words, e.g. knowledge of the overall context, and looking at the words surrounding the unknown word
(ii) Decide how important it is to understand a particular word and use a dictionary as necessary
(iii) Use a variety of strategies to help to read unfamiliar words, e.g. visual, phonic, structural and contextual clues
(iv) Apply knowledge of sound and letter patterns and of structure of words, including compounds, root words, grammatical endings, prefixes, suffixes and syllable divisions, in order to help decode words
(v) Use knowledge of word families to guess the meaning of unknown words
vi) Make use of phonemic transcription in dictionaries to learn the pronunciation of an unfamiliar word