1. Vocabulary strategies like chunking are helpful because they can increase comprehension by allowing the reader to decipher the meanings of unfamiliar words (A).
Chunking is a strategy where students break down difficult text into smaller sections and rewrite it in their own words. It helps identify key words and ideas, paraphrase, and makes it easier to organize and summarize information.
2. Another way of describing the chunking strategy is breaking down a long word into smaller pieces (D).
See the description of chunking above. The smaller sections can be part of a word or a few words.
3. The term multisyllabic means a word with many syllables (B).
We can use the chunking strategy to help us answer the question. We can break the word multisyllabic into two parts, "multi" and "syllabic." "Multi" means many and "syllabic" is referring to syllables. Therefore, multisyllabic means many syllables.
4. A reader should search for parts of the words that they know the meaning of (B).
Let's go back to the word multisyllabic. I might know that syllabic is referring to syllables, but I might not be sure about "multi." Using context clues I might be able to figure out what the rest of the word means.
