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Vocabulary
Key Concepts
Syllables & Affixes
Derivational Relations
Review
100

S&A readers learn to separate words into these.

What are morphemic chunks?
100

S&A writers can automatically do what to most of the words they need for writing.

What is spell?
100

S&A learners are intermediate readers & have greater what.

What is fluency?
100

When a prefix’s spelling is changed over time to reflect the pronunciation of the root or base.

What are absorbed prefixes?
100
TH, CH, WH, and SH.
What are digraphs?
200
These are the smallest units of meaning.
What are morphemes?
200

What stage of writers can be expected to revise their writing?

What are syllables & affixes?
200
Both prefixes and suffixes are these.
What are affixes?
200

Breaking down words in terms of their meaning units.

What is morphemic analysis?
200
cAr, pArk, and fIr.
What is r-influenced vowels?
300

Words to which affixes are added.

What are base words?
300

Combustión/combustion, Incursión/incursion, and Agricultura/agriculture.

What are cognates?
300
The vowel sound in an unstressed syllable.
What is schwa?
300
Sign/Signal, Oppose/Opposition, and Solemn/Solemnity.
What are sound alternations?
300
Groups of rhyming words like cat, mat, sat, and bat.
Word families (or phonograms).
400
Bio, Aer, and Botan.
What are Greek roots?
400

Affixes that are added to a base word that affects the meaning

What are derivational suffixes?
400
-s, -ed, and -ing.
What are inflectional suffixes?
400
Anti-, Audi-, and Beni-.
What are Latin roots?
400
brOWn, tOY, and bOIl.
What are diphthongs?
500
INeffective, IMmature, and IRrelevant.
What are assimilated prefixes?
500

Words that are related in meaning often share the same spelling despite changes to pronunciation.

What is the spelling-meaning connections?
500
Base words are also known as these.
Free morphemes.
500
An approach to word study that emphasizes spelling principles that apply to many words.
What is generative?
500
Park, ball, and down.
What are homonyms?