Indirect Vocabulary Instruction

Indirect vocabulary instruction: Teach students to UNLOCK the meaning of new word when they are reading independently.
1. Contextual Analysis: Use context clues strategies. (RAPS)

•  READ the sentence that includes the new word and the surrounding sentences. (read)
•  LOOK for:
•  words that mean opposite (antonyms)
•  what kind of thing the word is (object, concept, or action)
•  how something is done
•  what the word is like (compared with)
•  what the word is not like (contrasted with)
•  what the word is used for
• words related to the word (objects or ideas related to the new word)
• words that mean the same thing (synonyms, descriptions, or definitions)
• the location or setting
• THINK about the context clues, what other useful information do you know? (ask)
• PREDICT a meaning for the new word. (predict)
•  CHECK your meaning in the sentence. (say)

2. Structural Analysis: Use Latin and Greek roots and affixes to infer word meaning.

3. Reference Sources: Use reference tools such as student friendly dictionary and thesaurus.
    Look up base word. Find a synonym and check the meaning by replacing the word in the sentence.