EAL / Level C3 / Linguistic Structures and Features / Word knowledge
Content description
Use contextual cues to infer the meaning of unknown words
Elaborations
using existing vocabulary knowledge to predict the meaning of compound words (such as ‘daydream’) or words with familiar base words (such as ‘unbroken’)
using information in the text, such as images, headings or adjacent sentences, to deduce meanings
inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words and reading on to maintain fluency, and then checking new words in a dictionary after reading
Code
VCEALL713
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