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HOW TO STUDY

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Practice Tips

In the text you’re studying, or in a newspaper, find a word you don’t

know. Cover that word. Look at the rest of the sentence and decide

what the sentence could mean without the word you covered. If the

sentence isn’t clear on its own, write what you know for sure about the

meaning of the sentence. Try to draw a picture of the sentence, or to

make sense of it in any way that suits your learning style. Now, ask

yourself what you need to know to make the sentence clearer. Write

down your questions or record them into an audiotape.

Then go back to the original sentence and choose a word or phrase

that could replace the unfamiliar word. Check to see that your word

or phrase makes your picture clearer. You made a definition based on

what you knew—the words around the unknown word—to find out

what you didn’t know.

Now look in the dictionary and see how close you came!