Gerald is reading a story that has several new vocabulary words. He is using the events of the story and the text around the new vocabulary words to understand the meaning of the words. Which of the following strategies is Gerald using?
A) Context clues
B) Self monitoring
C) Semantic mapping
D) Morphology
Ans: A) Context clues
It refers to people using words or sentences around an unfamiliar word to help clarify its meaning, clearly what Gerald did in this situation.
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