Word-Analysis Skills and Vocabulary Development

Question 1

a correspondence between letters and sounds

Answer 1

phonics

Question 2

the structure of the language

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syntax

Question 3

meaning; how words relate to form meaning

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semantics

Question 4

the way in which expression can provide meaning to language

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pragmatics

Question 5

any number of ways in which readers analyze unknown words: using phonics to decode words, being able to chunk words into parts, and being able to recognize the meanings of these parts

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word-analysis skills

Question 6

making word families
word sorts
take apart
blending wheel or T-scope
word walls

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methods of teaching word-analysis skills

Question 7

the teacher gives students a group of letters such as ‘c’, ‘f’, ‘l’, ‘m’, ‘p’, and ‘v’ in order to work with the spelling pattern ‘ast’. to start, the ‘ast’ may be on one card with the other letters separate. the teacher begins by making the word ‘cast’ and saying a sentence with the word in it

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making word families

Question 8

students are given a group of words to sort into various categories
free sort: students can sort words any way they wish; by beginning sounds, ending sounds, rhymes, parts of speech
guided sorts: the teacher directs students to sort into particular phonetic categories, such as the ‘at’, ‘ing’, and ‘ake’ rimes

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word sorts

Question 9

students build a word, take it apart, and build it again as they study the word formation

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take apart

Question 10

different onsets can be matched to the same or different rimes to make a new word

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blending wheel or T-scope

Question 11

can be used to build categories of words, such as various word families, number of syllables, or beginning/ ending consonant blends

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word walls

Question 12

an abbreviation that is used as a word; ASAP

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acronym

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a letter or group of letters added to a root word to change its meaning; pre: re-, un- and su: -less, -acy

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affix

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a word or phrase that can be made by rearranging the letters of another word; ocean/canoe

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anagram

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words that mean the opposite; hot/cold, guilty/innocent

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antonyms

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a base word is a word that stands alone, but affixes can be added; test/ retest/ pretest/ testing/ tester

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base word

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two words that are joined together to form one word; upstairs

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compound words

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one word that abbreviates a two-word combination and uses an apostrophe to substitute for the subtracted letter or letters; don’t, wouldn’t

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contraction

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the study of the history of words or phrases; pizza (Italian)

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etymology

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an expression or word that is substituted for something that is considered too hard or vulgar; darn for damn

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euphemism

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words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings; bare, bear, pail, pale

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homophones

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a group of words that have a different meaning than what is expected; the ball is in your court

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idiom

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a word or phrase that is spelled the same forward and backward; mom, madam, racecar

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palindrome

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a morpheme that is attached to the beginning of a word

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prefix

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a morpheme that is attached to the ending of a word

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suffix

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words that mean the same thing or nearly the same thing; nice/ polite, cold/ chilly

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synonyms

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a syllable that ends with a consonant (CVC pattern) and usually has a short vowel sound; can/ter, but/ler

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closed syllable

Question 28

words with more than one syllable; these can be challenging to readers

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multisyllabic words

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a syllable that ends with a vowel (CV or V pattern) that usually has a long vowel sound; ba/by, a/way

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open syllable

Question 30

the ability to look at words and analyze them through word parts and their meanings

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structural analysis

Question 31

the act of dividing words into syllables

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syllabication

Question 32

true or false?

a syllable contains one vowel sound, an affix is a prefix or suffix, and a root word contains meaning

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true

Question 33

teaches the meaning of the base words, roots, and affixes

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structural analysis

Question 34

what strategy is taught when using these resources:
dictionaries
homographs and their pronunciation

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structural analysis, context clues

Question 35

dictionary
glossary
thesaurus
using online resources

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word reference materials