Whether you are helping your children learn to read, improving your own reading skills or simply learning a new language, knowing how to increase reading vocabulary can be extremely important. Merely reading a lot is not sufficient, because you will tend to skip words you are unfamiliar with and just guess at the general meaning of the sentence. You need to make an effort to check every unknown word in a dictionary and take steps to remember its meaning in the long term.
- Books
- Dictionary
- Notebook
- Pen
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Instructions
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Read a book until you encounter a word you do not know.
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Copy the word to a notebook.
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Look up the meaning of the word in the dictionary.
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Create a new sentence that uses the unfamiliar word in its correct meaning. Write that sentence in your notebook. If the word has multiple meanings, create one sentence for each meaning of the word. Repeat this process for every unfamiliar word you encounter.
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Review the words in your notebook every day, until you are truly familiar with them.