Ch 7: Syllabic Analysis, Structural Analysis, and Orthographic Knowledge (33%)

Question 1

structural analysis

Answer 1

process of decoding a multisyllabic word with an affix (prefix, suffix) added to a base word

students recognize a word by “putting together” their knowledge of affix and base word

mainly upper grades (learning what sounds they make and what the prefixes, suffixes, roots mean)

Question 2

syllabic analysis

Answer 2

process of decoding a multisyllabic word by examining the word’s syllables

students recognize the word by “putting together” their knowledge of each of the word’s syllables

Question 3

orthographic knowledge

Answer 3

what a person knows about how to spell words (a synonym for spelling)

Question 4

morpheme

Answer 4

most elemental unit of meaning in a language

in English, two types: some words and all affixes (prefixes and suffixes)

example: elephant is one morpheme but walked (walk+ed) is two and chairs (chair+s) is two

Question 5

bound vs. free morpheme

Answer 5

bound: prefixes and suffixes that cannot occur alone, they must be attached to a root word (i.e. un- or -est)
free: uttered alone with meaning (i.e. test)

Question 6

syllables - vowel vs. consonant

Answer 6

syllable is pronounced with a single, uninterrupted sound

vowel- can be a syllable
consonant - cannot be a syllable without the vowel

all syllables must have at least one vowel (English lang has about 2800 syllables)

Question 7

open vs. closed syllable

Answer 7

open ends with a vowel (i.e. be, go)

closed ends in a consonant (i.e. kick-ball, nor-mal)