How do we understand hard words when reading a story? 

Last term we spent some time on important strategies, how to understand new vocabulary words when reading a text. This strategy teaches the students  to rely on the content and Shoresh (root letters) to understand the stories they read. 

Shoresh (root letters)– Looking for a small word in a bigger word (words from same family). 

Content– Read the sentence before and after and look for words that you know, rely on the content to understand the meaning of what you read.

We call this strategy Moshe (מ.ש.ה), in Hebrew every letter stands for a different strategy that we use. We call him our helper, the students even drew a character to represent him 🙂