Select SEVEN questions that are necessary to ask when determining the meaning of a word. What is the author's ethnic background? -What part of speech is the word in the sentence?
-What are synonyms for the word?
-Does the word mean something different in another language?
-How often does the author use the word? Is it found in a dictionary? -Does the author change the meaning of the word throughout the text? -Does the title or subtitle of the selection help to explain the use of the word?
-Does the context of the sentence or surrounding sentences help to define the word?
-Does the context of the paragraph or the selection help to explain the use of the word?
-Does it have a familiar prefix, suffix, or root word?
-Is the word used denotatively, connotatively, or figuratively?