Four Vocabularies
Factors in Acquiring Vocab.
Vocabulary Strategies
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Prefix/Suffix Meanings
100
Earliest to develop and largest
What is listening?
100
The student comes to the class already knowing
What is Prior Knowledge?
100
"Searching" for the text for important words
What is Inductive Vocabulary Search?
100
The abbreviation ELL stands for . . .
What is English Language Learner?
100
The meaning of prefix "il" (illegal)
What is "not"?
200
Words used appropriately in written communication
What is Writing?
200
Gaining information about the meaning, pronunciation and part of speech of new words from prefixes, roots and suffixes
What is Morphology?
200
Students create sentences from a list of words or generates their own from an inductive vocabulary search.
What is Possible Sentences?
200
The smallest linguistic unit that has semantic meaning.
What is a Morpheme?
200
The meaning of suffix 'ful' (beautiful)
What is "full of"?
300
Words a person recognizes or can figure out in print
What is Reading?
300
Understanding the text using knowledge of syntax, morphology, phonics and semantics
What is Context?
300
Help connects key term to its origin, related words, and situations.
What is Word Family Tree?
300
Words that mean the opposite of one another.
What is an Antonym?
300
The meaning of suffix "less" (careless)
What is "without"?
400
Words used in everyday speech.
What is Speech?
400
Looking up words in a dictionary, often used as a daily activity in hundreds of classrooms.
What is Definitions?
400
Often referred to as a graphic organizer.
What is a Concept Map?
400
Words that mean almost the same.
What is a Synonym?
400
The meaning of suffix "or" (sailor)
What is "one who"?
500
Each of the four vocabularies build on . . .
What is one another?
500
Acquainted Level and Established Level
What is the Two Different Levels of Comprehension?
500
Prereading strategy used to categorize or label words.
What is List-Group-Label?
500
Multiple-meaning word.
What is Polysemous Words?
500
The meaning of prefix "sub" (submarine)
What is "under"?