Guess Unknown Words

Age: 3rd Grade and Up

Level: Beginner to Advanced

Time: Various

Language Skills: Reading

Participation: Individual; Pairs

Materials: Story fitting student level; Comprehension questions

Procedures:

1. Demonstrate how to read a text while marking unknown words and briefly guessing what the word means on another sheet of paper.

2. Give the students the text.

3. Have students read the text the same way you demonstrated.

4. Near the end of the activity, have students answer the comprehension questions.

5. Have students find the unknown words in a biligual dictionary or English-only dictionary.

Assessment: Comprehension questions; Vocabulary test or exercises

 

(This activity comes from the book: Using Folktales by Eric K. Taylor which is part of the useful Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers)