Hello to all my Super A reading students,
How are you? I will show you a word learning technique called semantic networking (意味ネットワーク). This is a useful method for you to make your own meaning of words in another way without a dictionary.
Here's an example. Look at the five words in the picture above - cat, pet, fish, food, & people.
These words are not all connected, but some of the words have a kind of connection.
Now I found one connection, and wrote a simple sentence - cats like fish.
Now I found two more connections - cats make good pets, and fish make good pets.
How are you? I will show you a word learning technique called semantic networking (意味ネットワーク). This is a useful method for you to make your own meaning of words in another way without a dictionary.
Here's an example. Look at the five words in the picture above - cat, pet, fish, food, & people.
These words are not all connected, but some of the words have a kind of connection.
Now I found one connection, and wrote a simple sentence - cats like fish.
Now I found two more connections - cats make good pets, and fish make good pets.
Now I found two more connections to that - people like fish, and people keep pets.
There are more connections - can you make them yourself? You can try this out with any group of words - so try this with some vocabulary from the next story we'll read in the textbook.
Homework (for 5/20)
1. Read the next story in our textbook outside of class.
2. Select 5-7 words from the story. Choose words that are a little difficult for you. On a piece of notebook paper, write them in a pattern like in the example pictures. Then try to find connections with them and make your own sentences using them.
Look at this blogpost as many times as you want to help yourself. Try it out - see how it works for you.
See you next time!
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