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laughs

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decoding words

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you read many words every day words

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aren't only in books and magazines

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they're on websites on your homework on

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signs in the halls of your school and

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billboards as you drive down the road

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they're in stores and shops words are in

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many places sometimes it can be really

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frustrating when you see a word but

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don't know how to say the word look at

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this word

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have you seen this word before

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do you know how to pronounce or read it

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do you know what it means

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this word is a big word it is probably

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hard to read and to understand let's put

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this word in a sentence and see if it

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helps you understand what the work means

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because the King was very kind and

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magnanimous

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many people loved him

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how about this time is the word easier

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to understand now

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let's read the sentence aloud one more

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time

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because the King was very kind and

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magnanimous many people loved him

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magnanimous means generous or

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considerate

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it is a difficult word even for some

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adults do you have a certain way that

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helps you figure out the meaning of

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words that are not familiar to you

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one of the best ways to learn new words

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is by looking at the pictures that are

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next to it

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pictures are one way that we can try to

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figure out the different meanings of

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words however since most words do not

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include picture Clues we need to look

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for other ways to help us figure out

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what words mean

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you could look up the word in a

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dictionary or use the internet to search

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for the word but there is another way

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too

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trying to figure out what the word means

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by looking at the clues around it is

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called decoding

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decoding is simply learning how to read

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an unfamiliar or new word by cracking

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the code

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it's kind of like looking for Clues to

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find the answer

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there are only 26 letters in the

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alphabet but there are thousands of

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words in the English language you

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already know how to pronounce many words

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and you know their meanings too

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dog cat car

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go stop

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eat are all words that are probably

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familiar to you you can understand what

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these words mean in fact you probably

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understood them before you could read

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them

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it can be confusing sometimes when you

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see some letters that make up a word but

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don't know how to say that word

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this can happen even when you might know

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the meaning of a word for example

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you probably knew what dog was long

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before you could recognize the word dog

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written out

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there are other words that you might be

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able to pronounce or say but maybe don't

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know what they mean here are a few

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examples

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are you able to read some of these words

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and the ones that you can read do you

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know what they mean

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even though you might be able to read

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some words you might not know what they

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mean yet

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there are also words you can't pronounce

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and you don't know their meaning like

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magnanimous

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because some words are familiar to you

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they can be difficult to read and

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understand

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learning to decode words involves

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putting letter sounds together letter

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sounds are the sounds a letter makes

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when it's found in a word

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when we joined the many letter sounds

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found in a word those sounds Blended

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together are the clues that can help you

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learn a new word

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let's look at the word cat this word is

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made up of three different sounds

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C makes the k sound the a makes the ah

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sound and the T makes the T sound

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the way we decode the word cat is by

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putting those three sounds together to

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pronounce the word

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ah

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makes cat

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when you put letter sounds together in a

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word you are decoding that word

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by decoding words you can learn how to

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pronounce all types of words both small

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and big there are five steps that can

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help you decode and learn new words

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using these steps will help you learn

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how to pronounce the words in sentences

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and read other words that are similar to

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often you will also discover the meaning

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of the word before long you may not even

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need all five steps to decode a word

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let's look at the steps

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first start with the first letter of a

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word and sound it out say each of the

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letter sounds aloud to just like we did

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with the word cat Ka

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ah ta

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now blend The Sounds together and try to

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say the word

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cat cat

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so take a look at this word that you

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might not be familiar with

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now let's sound each letter out

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ta

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now let's blend those sounds together

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Liberty Liberty

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did you hear the word Liberty when the

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sounds of each letter were Blended

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making this sound of each letter and

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then blending them together is a great

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way to learn to decode a word

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for our second step in helping us to

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code words try separating a word into

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smaller sections take a look at the word

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catastrophe notice the word cat is in

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the word try breaking up smaller words

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and blending them together

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cat as tra fee then becomes catastrophe

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you may recognize a smaller word within

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a big word just like corn and Corner

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bath in bathtub and caught in cottage

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blend the small word sounds together to

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help you come up with a word like corn

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ER corner or

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catastrophy catastrophe

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third step look at the unfamiliar word

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does the word or part of it look like a

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word you already know if you compare

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part of the word that you do know with

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the rest of the word that you don't know

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can you figure out its meaning

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some words make more sense when you

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break them apart the word birthday for

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example if you break that word up you

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can see that it means day of your birth

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fourth step

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if you are still confused continue

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reading the sentence containing the word

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are there clues in the sentence that can

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help you learn the new word did it help

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you understand the word magnanimous a

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little better once we used it in a

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sentence by using the other words in the

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sentence as Clues like many people loved

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the king and he was kind were you able

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to figure out the word magnanimous

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probably meant something good too

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looking at other words in the sentence

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to find out the meaning of an unfamiliar

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word like magnanimous can provide you

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helpful Clues

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and the fifth

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sometimes you may read the same word in

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several sentences before you learn its

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meaning think about the subject of what

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you're reading too

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knowing what you are reading about can

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help you decode words as well

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each of these five steps will help you

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learn how to pronounce new words and

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learn their meanings however sometimes

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you won't see a word in a sentence that

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you cannot decode

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don't stop reading or give up it's okay

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to use a dictionary or ask someone for

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help

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of course the more you read the more

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words you will learn knowing many words

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not only help you read better but help

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you understand Science History math

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music art and many other things about

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the world

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