Reading Growth: Understanding Word Meanings

Series: Reading Growth Series

Duration: 0:13:00

Genre: Educational

Creator: Coronet Instructional Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Proposes that everyone should habitually collect the meanings of newly-derived words, new meanings of familiar words, and unfamiliar words. Discusses techniques which aid the acquisition of word meanings: skill in gathering clues from context, recognizing sounds, ability to distinguish word parts, and use of a dictionary. Concludes that everyone can increase his mastery of word meanings by practicing this procedure daily. , Illustrates how to learn meanings of newly-made words, familiar words with unfamiliar meanings, and unfamiliar words by using phonetic and structural analysis, context clues, and a knowledge of prefixes, suffixes, and roots.

Complete Record: , Proposes that everyone should habitually collect the meanings of newly-derived words, new meanings of familiar words, and unfamiliar words. Discusses techniques which aid the acquisition of word meanings: skill in gathering clues from context, recognizing sounds, ability to distinguish word parts, and use of a dictionary. Concludes that everyone can increase his mastery of word meanings by practicing this procedure daily., Illustrates how to learn meanings of newly-made words, familiar words with unfamiliar meanings, and unfamiliar words by using phonetic and structural analysis, context clues, and a knowledge of prefixes, suffixes, and roots.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.