{"id":36,"date":"2019-12-07T11:35:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T11:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/coreqenglish1\/chapter\/outcome-evaluate-strategies-for-retaining-new-words\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T21:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T21:41:14","slug":"outcome-evaluate-strategies-for-retaining-new-words","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/chapter\/outcome-evaluate-strategies-for-retaining-new-words\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Vocabulary-Building Reading Strategies","rendered":"Introduction to Vocabulary-Building Reading Strategies"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do: use context clues and other reading strategies to learn and retain new words<\/h2>\r\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"227\"><img class=\"wp-image-2464 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4975\/2019\/12\/26214548\/dictionary-390055_1920-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Decorative image.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>College reading covers a much broader range of topics than what you\u2019ve encountered before. Becoming well-read strengthens your critical thinking skills, and in this section, you'll explore strategies to build your vocabulary.<\/p>\r\n<p data-start=\"229\" data-end=\"477\">Don't worry\u2014you won\u2019t be memorizing long lists of complex words in this section. Instead, you'll learn how to approach reading methodically to naturally expand your vocabulary. While reading more does help, you can also use context clues and word parts to decipher new words.<\/p>\r\n<p data-start=\"479\" data-end=\"689\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">You'll also discover strategies for handling specialized or technical vocabulary. 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Instead, you&#8217;ll learn how to approach reading methodically to naturally expand your vocabulary. While reading more does help, you can also use context clues and word parts to decipher new words.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"479\" data-end=\"689\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">You&#8217;ll also discover strategies for handling specialized or technical vocabulary. Since college courses often introduce unfamiliar concepts, reading strategically will help you get the most out of your studies.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-36\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Outcome: Vocabulary-Building Reading Strategies. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: University of Mississippi. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Image of a dictionary definition . <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: PDPics. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Pixabay. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/dictionary-words-grammar-abc-390055\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/dictionary-words-grammar-abc-390055\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em>Other<\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: https:\/\/pixabay.com\/service\/terms\/#license<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":29,"menu_order":17,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Outcome: Vocabulary-Building Reading Strategies\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"University of Mississippi\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Image of a dictionary definition \",\"author\":\"PDPics\",\"organization\":\"Pixabay\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/dictionary-words-grammar-abc-390055\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"other\",\"license_terms\":\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/service\/terms\/#license\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"f84523a5-0261-4e89-95dc-8ac7854c3c99","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-36","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":151,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6455,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/36\/revisions\/6455"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/151"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/36\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}