EDUC347 - Examples 4 & 5

What are the THREE kinds of structural units (morphemic units) useful in figuring out the meaning of unknown words? Check all.

• compound words

• prefixes and suffixes

• inflectional morphemes

• vowel sounds

• consonant clusters

You could tell your students that the word "teacher" is made up of two meaning units: "teach" and "er".

• True

• False

You could tell your students that the word "notebook" is made up of two meaning units: "note" and "book".

• True

• False

You could tell your students that the word "important" is made up of two meaning units: "im" and "portant".

• True

• False

You could tell your students that the word "impossible" is made up of two meaning units: "im" and "possible".

• True

• False

Students should use the structural analysis of compound words strategy only when they see that a word is _________________________.

• made up of two meaning units

• longer than 5 letters

• made up of two words they already know

Which sentences could a teacher use when explaining to students how to use the structural analysis strategy?

• "When I see a big word, I look it up in the dictionary."

• "When I see a big word, I try to find if it contains smaller words I know."

• "I put these two words alone and see if each one has a meaning I know.

• "All long words are compound words."

Understanding compound words. prefixes, and suffixes helps students in spelling words when they write.

• True

• False

______________ is the strategy of using prior knowledge to guess what is going to happen.

Readers make predictions based on: (tick all)

• sentence structure

• reading purpose

• topic clues

• personal interest

• text type