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Personal Spelling Dictionary-table with words and space for notes about how students remember to spell them

Bookmark text: Vocabulary Strategies 1. Reread the sentence or read ahead and use context clues. 2. Use clues from a picture or another text feature. 3. Look for parts you know- root, prefix, suffix. Ex: Celebratory has the root celebrate 4. Make a connection to another word you know. Ex: jest and jester 5. Substitute a synonym. 6. Look the word up in the glossary or a dictionary.

This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.

Linked to Bruchac website.