Week 2 Day 2 Foundations of Reading

Section 4

Understand Word

Analysis Skills & Strategies

Week 2 Day 2 ​

Poll

Now spend about 5 minutes reflecting upon your score report and if you feel comfortable please share out what do did you notice?

Do you feel like knowing this new information now could better help you "Gamble your points"?

• Yes, I totally agree

• No, I still don't understand

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Vocabulary

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Morpheme: any unit in a word is a morpheme (in the word dogs, “dog” and the “s,” are both morphemes)

Base Word: A base-word is usually a simple word from which you can build a family of words around it. If you start with “place” you can say places, placing, placings, replace, placement, etc.

Root Word: Root word refers to the origin of a word. For example, “locus” means place in Latin. From this root word derives words such as local, locate, locality, relocation and phrases like “in loco parentis.” Prefix: Morpheme added to the beginning of the word Suffix: Morpheme added to the end of the word Affix: Prefixes, suffixes and inflectional endings Also see homograph, homonym and homophone in the Glossary section

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Multiple Choice

35.) Use the information below to answer the question that follows.

A teacher poses the following question to fourth-grade students.

What words can you think of that have the word "act" in them?

Using student responses, the teacher creates the following web on the board.

This technique is likely to be most helpful  for enhancing the students' awareness of:

• A.) morphemic structure

• B.) compound words

• C.) syllable patterns

• D.) Greek roots

Multiple Choice

36.) Which of the following sets of words  would be most effective to use when  introducing students to the concept of  structural analysis?

• A.) late, great, wait, eight

• B.) afraid, obtain, explain, remain

• C.) swim, swims, swam, swum

• D.) pretest, retest, tested, testing

Multiple Choice

37.) An English Language Learner pronounces  tigers as tiger when reading the following  sentence aloud.

Which of the following actions is most  appropriate for the teacher to take first in  response to the student's miscue?

• A.) guide the student in reading lists of  nouns with and without plural –s on  the end

• B.) verify that the student understands  that tigers means more than

  one tiger

• C.) provide the student with  independent practice in adding  plural –s to singular nouns

• D.) provide a picture card to determine  whether the student can identify

  a tiger

Multiple Choice

38.) The following sentence is missing several  words.

A word with the suffix -tion would fit best  in which of the blanks in the sentence?

• A.) 1

• B.) 2

• C.) 3

• D.) 4

Multiple Choice

39.) Which of the following principles is best  illustrated by the words watched, wanted,  and warned ?

• A.) Spelling is often the best predictor  of the pronunciation of a suffix.

• B.) Open syllables are usually  pronounced with a long vowel  sound.

• C.) The spelling of a suffix is often  more reliable than its pronunciation.

• D.) The second letter of a consonant  blend is usually pronounced as the  onset of the following syllable.

Multiple Choice

40.) The words enjoyable, maneuverable,  corruptible, and convertible best illustrate  which of the following principles?

• A.) The spelling of a suffix can vary  depending on its root word.

• B.) The accented syllable of a root word  can shift when certain suffixes are  added to it.

• C.)   The addition of a suffix can alter the  spelling of its root word.

• D.) The pronunciation of a suffix can  change when added to certain root  words.

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Multiple Choice

41.) A second-grade teacher has students pull  two single-syllable nouns from a hat  (e.g., bulb, light) and asks them to form  words by putting the words together  (e.g., lightbulb). Students then draw  pictures to illustrate their new words and  write short stories using the new words.  This activity is likely to be most effective  for helping students:

• A.) use visualization as a reading  comprehension strategy.

• B.) apply knowledge of phonics  generalizations.

• C.) use context clues to identify  unfamiliar words.

• D.) understand the concept of  compound words.

Multiple Choice

42.) Instruction in structural analysis is likely  to promote upper elementary students'  reading comprehension primarily by:

• A.) facilitating their ability to use  phonics generalizations to decode  words.

• B.) enhancing their familiarity with the  text structures and features used in  different genres.

• C.) equipping them with strategies for  understanding the meanings of  unfamiliar multisyllable words.

• D.)   increasing their knowledge of key  vocabulary found in content-area  textbooks.

Multiple Choice

43.) A third-grade teacher administers the  following informal reading assessment to  individual students.

One student performs significantly better  on the second part of the test than on the  first. Which of the following is the best  assessment of this student's reading  performance?

• A.) The student is proficient at using  context clues to help identify words  but has weak word decoding skills.

• B.) The student can decode single-  syllable words but has not yet  learned how to decode multisyllable  words.

• C.) The student is proficient at using  syntactic clues to identify words  but is not yet skilled at using  semantic clues.

• D.) The student understands letter-  sound correspondence but has  limited awareness of syllable  structure.

Multiple Choice

44..) A second-grade teacher uses the following  handout to guide the class through an  activity.

This activity would best promote students'  ability to:

• A.) identify and decode common  homographs.

• B.) use structural clues to identify the  meaning of words.

• C.) cluster new vocabulary together into  meaningful groups.

• D.)   find and use synonyms for common  words.

Homework​

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Make your study schedule.

Answer ?'s 16-20​

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