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Learning strategies for understanding new words is an important and maybe even an indispensable tool for readers who want to understand what they are reading.
Learning strategies for understanding new words is an important|Ok, this is easy. Learning strategies for figuring out the meaning of new words is important. I wonder what strategies we’re going to learn? Anyway, it’s important to learn those if we want to understand new words. Let’s see about the word “indispensable”. The sentence says that learning strategies is important, maybe even indispensable. That tells me that indispensable might be even bigger than important. An important tool is a good thing to have, but an indispensable tool is even better than that, even more important! It sounds like I really need to use strategies if I want to find out the meaning of new words.
tool|So figuring out new words and concepts by relating them to other words in the text is an indispensable tool. A tool is a helpful thing, so indispensable is a good thing—maybe something like helpful or important.
reading.|A ha! This part of the sentence tells me why the information in the first part of the sentence is important: Figuring out new words and concepts by relating them to the text around them is important to readers who want to know what’s going on in the sentence. Doing so is “an indispensable tool” to readers. That means the skill is not just helpful like a tool, but something more, something that readers can’t do without. Therefore, indispensable means something that is necessary.
