Exam 2: Semantics (Vocabulary) Intervention

Question 1

What is the difference between vocabulary instruction and vocabulary intervention (4)?

Answer 1

1. Intervention is likely to fit curricular guides closely.
2. Vocabulary intervention may need to target other terms interfering with child’s success
   a. Function words, directional terms
   b. e.g. center, before/after, each
3. LI children are slower to acquire new words, need more exposures and may need explicit scaffolding to create associations
4. Still need vocabulary intervention to be relevant to the child’s curriculum, academic goals.

Question 2

Quality vocabulary instruction characteristics (4)

Answer 2

1. Relate new vocab to prior knowledge - integration principle
2. Support children’s “elaborated” word knowledge
3. Assist children to acquire new words
4. Repetition and recall practice, use new words 5X meaningfully in the first week after introduction

Question 3

How should one assist children in acquiring new words in quality vocabulary instruction (3)?

Answer 3

1. Actively
2. Independently - through strategies including comprehension monitoring
3. Repetition and recall practice, use new words 5X meaningfully in the first week after introduction

Question 4

The smallest unit of meaning and can be either bound or free.

Answer 4

Morphemes

Question 5

What types of morphemes have to be addressed in vocabulary instruction?

Answer 5

Bound and free

Question 6

These exist on their own as a recognizable word in the English language.

Answer 6

Base words

Question 7

Portions of a base word that do not stand alone and have no meaning by themselves in the English language and are usually derived from Greek or Latin.

Answer 7

Root words

Question 8

These often create new words.

Answer 8

Derivational morphemes

Question 9

-ation

Answer 9

added to a verb or root to finalize,

Question 10

Create change in the function of the word and must be a suffix.

Answer 10

Inflectional morphemes

Question 11

List the noun inflections and give examples.

Answer 11

-s (plural) and -s (possessive)

Question 12

List the verb inflections and give examples.

Answer 12

-s (3rd person singular) and -ed (past tense)

Question 13

List the adjective and adverb inflections and give examples.

Answer 13

er (comparative) and -est (superlative)

Question 14

The awareness of and access to the meaning and structure of morphemes in relation to words.

Answer 14

Morphological awareness