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A word made up of two or more base words, such as football.
What is Compound Word
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That body of words whose meanings one understands and can use.
What is meaning vocabulary
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Meaningful chunks attached to the beginnings of words, such as re + play = replay.
What is prefixes
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Meaningful chunks attached to the ends of words, such as play + ing = playing.
What is suffixes
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A visual illustration of a word, showing its meaning by offering examples and explaining what it is and what it is not
What is word map
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A strategy utilized to help students integrate new words into their meaning vocabularies.
What is context-relationship procedure
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A word having multiple meanings, such as the word fast.
What is polysemantic
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Pictures, brief video clips, or objects introduced in tandem with a new word or concept to build new associations with the words, especially used for the benefit of English Learners, to provide accessibility to the associated print.
What is realia
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A support mechanism by which children are able to accomplish more difficult tasks than they could without assistance.
What is scaffolding
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words commonly used in educational contexts across the disciplines.
What is academic language
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a graphic representation of the relationships among words phrases in written materials
What is semantic map
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the smallest meaning -bearing linguistic unit in a language.
What is morphemes
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The explicit teaching of instructional vocabulary is a central literacy building goal in secondary classrooms. As vocabulary terms become more specialized in content area courses, students are less able to derive the meaning of unfamiliar words incidentally simply by relying on context in which they appear.
What is content area vocabulary
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When teaching English learners, efforts by the teacher to bridge the language gap by providing meaningful contexts for words and concepts being introduced. In providing sheltered instruction, the teacher may use pictures, film clips, charts, and graphs as well as gestures, charades, and pantomime to get concepts across.
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