Competency 005

Question 1

Word Analysis

Answer 1

The way children approach a written word in order to decode and obtain meaning from it

Question 2

Sight Words

Answer 2

Words that occur very frequently in print

Question 3

What are the three types of context clues?

Answer 3

Semantic, Syntactic, and Structural

Question 4

Semantic Clues

Answer 4

Require a child to think about the meanings of words and what is already known about the topic being read

Question 5

Syntactic Clues

Answer 5

The way words are ordered in a sentence

Question 6

Structural Clues

Answer 6

How letters are grouped within words (morphemes)

Question 7

Derivational Morphemes

Answer 7

Prefixes; Suffixes; can change the syntactic classification of the word (can change a word from a verb to a noun or from an adjective to an adverb)

Question 8

Inflectional Endings

Answer 8

Don’t change the syntactic classification and typically follow derivational morpheme; there are 8 inflectional endings in English

Question 9

Homonyms

Answer 9

Words that have the same sound and the same spelling but differ in meaning

Question 10

Homophones

Answer 10

Words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings

Question 11

Homographs

Answer 11

Words that are spelled the same way but have more than one pronunciation and different meanings

Question 12

Compound Words

Answer 12

Created when two independent words are joined to create a new word