Cognates
Affixes
Roots
Classroom Strategies
Literacy Terms
100

Familia

What is family?

100

The prefix in disappointing

What is dis? 

100

Bio

What is life? 

100

An interactive way to model reading to students 

What is read-aloud? 

100

Two letters that combine to make two separate sounds

What are blends?

200

Desierto

What is desert? 

200

Prefix that means to do again

What is re-? 

200

Ped

What is foot? 

200

Words that look alike, but do not have the same meaning in Spanish and English 

Embarrassed/Embarazada

What are false cognates? 

200

Phonemes that represent the same sound consistently

What are consonants? 

300

Largo

What is long? 

300

The suffix in kindness

What is -ness? 

300

Port

What is carry? 

300

Modifying instruction on hand so that you reach all the abilities of students

What is differentiation? 

300

Word families with similar rimes 

What are phonograms? 

400

Ropa

What is rope? 

400

Suffix that means an action or a result

(hint: move___)

What is -ment? 

400

Astir

What is star? 

400

Modeling what is expected, offering support as needed, and then stepping back

What is scaffolding?

400

Understanding that spoken words are made up of sounds

What is phonemic awareness? 

500

Sopa

What is soup? 

500

The suffix in passionate

What is -ate? 

500

Mit or Mis

What is send? 

500

When students group words from a word wall into two or more categories

What is a word sort? 

500

The language origin of a word

What is etymology? 

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