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How do students develop knowledge about a word?
Through repeated oral and written exposure to it.
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What is one component of vocabulary instruction?
1. Immerse students in words through listening, talking, reading and writting. 2. Teach specific words through active involvement and multiple encounters with words. 3. Teach word-learning strategies so students can figure out the meanings of unfamiliar words. 4. Develop students’ word consciousness, their awareness of and interest in words.
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When students have a concept related to a word but are not familiar with the word, either in oral or written form, they are in which situation for unfamiliar words?
New word
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When students learn the origin of a new word, the students are learning that word’s:
etymology
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After presenting a lesson on Alaska, a teacher added the words tundra, Arctic, oil, and resources to the word wall. Those words are examples of:
Content related words
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What does SSR stand for?
SSR means Sustained Silent Reading.
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What are the differences between synonyms, antonyms and homonyms? Give an example of one of them.
Synonyms are words that have nearly the same meaning, antonyms are words that express opposite meanings and homonyms are confusing because even though these words have different meanings they’re either pronounced the same of spelled the same as other words.
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The phrase "in hot water," when it refers to someone who is in trouble, is an example of a(n)
idiom
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To read and comprehend a book, research suggests that students must
know 85% of the words in the book
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A student knows that omni means "all" and that vorous means "to swallow up." She therefore can determine that omnivorous means animals that eat both meat and plants. She is applying what word study strategy?
Morphemic analysis
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What does SSR encourage?
Wide Reading
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Dramatization is an especially effective activity for ________ _________.
English Learners
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According to research, effective vocabulary instruction integrates new information with the familiar. Students are most likely to achieve that integration by
developing a semantic map.
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When teaching students to find the meaning of a word in a dictionary, instructors should:
compare the word to related words and opposites
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A student knows that omni means "all" and that vorous means "to swallow up." She therefore can determine that omnivorous means animals that eat both meat and plants. She is applying what word study strategy?
Cognates
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Students need opportunities for independent reading in order to ______ _______ and they need to read books at their independent reading levels
Learn words
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What the three tiers of vocabulary?
Basic words, academic words, specialized words.
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Explicit dictionary meanings are known as:
literal meanings
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Research suggests that the best predictor of vocabulary growth in students between second grade and fifth grade is?
the amount of time students spend reading independently.
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A teacher selected words used in a thematic unit and he made a grid to classify the words according to their distinguishing characteristics. He then asked his students to analyze each word, characteristic by characteristic, and indicate their results on the grid. His class participated in an activity called:
Semantic Feature Analysis
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Teachers can also use think-alouds when they model using ____________________________________________.
Context clues and other word-identification strategies.
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What is a homograph, and what is an example?
words that are spelt the same but pronounced differently Ex: read and read, present and present
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Words have entered the English language from many sources. The three main sources have been
English, Latin, and Greek
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Two of the best ways to provide opportunities for independent reading are:
Literacy circles and reading workshops.
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While giving a class presentation, a sixth grade student explained the meaning of the word telephone by saying that, “Tele means distance and phon means sound. A telephone enables someone to hear sound across a distance.” This student was using a technique known as:
Morphemic Analysis