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Regents of the University of California: Using the Cognates Strategy

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This strategy guide introduces an approach for making students aware of cognates (words that have a similar spelling, pronunciation, and meaning across languages) in content-area texts. This guide includes an introductory section about the strategy of using cognates, a general overview of how to teach this strategy with many science texts, and a plan for introducing cognates with the Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading book, Walk in the Woods.

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional