Word Identification

Question 1

word ID

Answer 1

to build up high frequency words

regular words
at, can, like,

Irregular words
you, said, does

Question 2

Preposition

Answer 2

A noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause, as in “the man on the platform,” “she arrived after dinner,” “what did you do it for ?”.

preposition words: of, at, it, without, between, after, during, of, in, to for, beyond, along, etc.

Question 3

pronouns

Answer 3

noun agreement

he, they, she, it, anybody

Question 4

determiners

Answer 4

a word placed before a noun to provide information such as quantity, ownership, and specificity

example: a, the, at, my, more, much, either, etc

Question 5

conjunction

Answer 5

a word used to connect a sentence

example: because, therefore, when, although, that, and, or

Question 6

auxiliary verbs

Answer 6

a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect, modality, voice, emphasis, et

example: be, can, could, do, might, may, must, shall, should, will, would

Question 7

Particles

Answer 7

, as a part of speech that cannot be inflected, and a modern meaning, as a function word associated with another word or phrase to impart meaning.

exammple: no, not, nor

Question 8

decodable words

Answer 8

Brick
BR I CK

Sheep
Sh EE P

flag
fl a g

if the student pronounces it as brick at bik, or sheep at sep - they struggle with blends and diagraphs

if the student pronounces it as brick as brit or sheep as heep - the student struggles with consonant diagraphs

Question 9

basic structural word analysis

Answer 9

compound words
multi-syllable words
base 1+ base 2 (base means own word)

Two words that come to together
so base 1 word + base 2 word

starfish
lipstick
cartwheel
strawberry

Question 10

morphemes

Answer 10

un-happy-ness
un = prefix
happy - stem base word
ness - suffix

Question 11

Prefix and suffix =

Answer 11

affixes

Question 12

context clues

Answer 12

hints to an author gives you to help you figure out the meaning of an unknown word

Question 13

semantic clues

Answer 13

using background knowledge + context clues + picture clues

ex: pet goldfish —-> student says “pet goo goo” but then corrects themselves - they realized that did not make sense

Question 14

syntactic clues

Answer 14

using knowledge of language patterns
(grammatical errors)

ex: two boy go to the store
BOYS

Question 15

phonics/ visual clues (Graphophonic)

Answer 15

using letter - sound relations + visual info in the print

example: sh- e (long) - p