Within a Reading course, teachers have autonomy in how vocabulary will be presented, taught, and practiced. However, students should be required to apply strategies to unknown vocabulary that they come across.

Here are some possible receptive skills to practice:

• Guessing meaning from context
  • recognizing part of speech
  • nonsense words
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  • words from other languages
  • slang/idioms
  • antiquated words
• Understanding word parts
  • identifying and understanding roots
  • understanding derivational and inflectional morphemes (prefixes and suffixes)