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Word Parts
Vocabulary Instruction
Text Comprehension
Language Terms
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Word parts that are "fixed to" either the beginnings of words or the endings of words. E.g., the word disrespectful has two of these, (dis-) and (-ful).
What are affixes?
100
These are words used in everyday speech that are usually learned in early grades. E.g., old, baby, cat.
What are tier one vocabulary words?
100
This is a strategy for improving text comprehension that teachers can have their students do. Doing this improves learning from reading by: giving students a purpose for reading, focusing students' attention on what they are to learn, helping students actively think while they read, etc.
What is answering questions?
100
This refers to how words are combined to make understandable sentences.
What is syntax?
200
The word part that is "fixed to" the beginning of a word. E.g., the (re-) in restart.
What is a prefix?
200
These words are more likely to occur in written texts than in speech and are found in a variety of texts: informational texts (e.g., relative, accumulate), technical texts (e.g., calibrate, periphery), and literary texts (e.g., misfortune, dignified, unabashedly).
What are tier two vocabulary words?
200
This is a strategy for improving text comprehension that refers to acknowledging the way the content and events of a story are organized into a plot.
What is recognizing story structure?
200
This refers to the sound system of language.
What is phonology?
300
The word part that is "fixed to" the ending of a word. E.g., the (-ing) in turning
What is a suffix?
300
These words are specific to a domain or field of study and key to understanding a new concept within a text (e.g., circumference, aorta, lava, carburetor).
What are tier three vocabulary words?
300
This is a strategy for improving text comprehension that involves teaching students to be aware of when they understand what they have read and when they do not.
What is monitoring comprehension?
300
This refers to the social rules of interaction or how context contributes to meaning.
What is pragmatics?
400
This refers to words and their meanings.
What is semantics?
500
This refers to the rules of language (word endings).
What is morphology?