What strategies would you use if you found a word you did not know in your text?

Context clue.  

Explanation:

Besides having near a dictionary when making a reading, context clue is another useful strategy that can be used when during a reading it is found a word whose meaning is unknown.  

Context clue refers to the information, like definitions, synonyms, antonyms, or examples, that appears near a word or phrase and which offers suggestions, about the meaning of such word or phrase.

That is to say, context clue is a strategy aimed to help the reader to learn new words through the words around them. Which is considered a valuable reading comprehension skill.

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