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ERRR #062. Margaret McKeown on Robust Vocabulary Instruction

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What's the Context of a Sentence?

Students can sometimes attribute meaning of the entire context to the target word. Theyre just kind of playing and guessing game it. It's its taking, taking the context as the meaning of the word. And that's very, very common. But when you think about it, it makes sense because your kids ar this context, and it's almost like there's a hole in it. You know, potential is kind of a hole for them. So they're trying to make sense of the information they do understand. As humans, we try to do that, instead of focusing on what the unknown, which is really what we needto think aboutye, that's right.

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