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Summary: A collection of vocabulary strategies to help you add variety to learning new vocabulary in guided reading sessions.

Vocabulary Detective Cards - Set Two

Card One - Unless we encounter these new words a few times over the coming days we will forget them. What strategies can we develop to help us remember them?

Card Two - I wonder wher the word 'etymology' comes from?

Etymology is the study of the history of words and how their form and meaning have changed over time - Wikipedia

- I wonder where this word was first used?
- I wonder when this word was first used.
- Let's Google 'insert word / etymology'
- Record it on a map

Card Three - A Series of Unfortunate Events - has a lovely 'running joke' where Lemony Snicket uses the same set of words to explain words & phrase meanings. Work it into your lessons & the fans will love you. hehehehe

- (insert word)… is a word which here means…
- (insert phrase)… is a phrase which here means…

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