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Knowing What You Don't Know
Monitor your own vocabulary gaps — notice words you half-know, distinguish confident from uncertain knowledge, and develop strategies to resolve the uncertainty
Typical age: 8–10 years
“When your child comes across a word they half-know — where they can guess the meaning but aren't sure — do they notice that gap and do something about it, like looking it up or asking?”
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- Inference vs Explicit Meaning
Monitoring vocabulary gaps requires distinguishing what you genuinely understand from what you have inferred or assumed — the same literal/inferred awareness applied to word knowledge
- Learning from Mistakes
Monitoring vocabulary gaps is a form of error and gap analysis — the same habit of investigating what you don't fully know applied to word knowledge