Deck 5: Word Recognition

Question 1

Words that look alike but have different meanings and often different pronunciations-such as bow, read, and rebel -are

A)affixes
B)homographs.
C)antonyms.
D)synonyms.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following is true regarding the use of dictionaries?

A)They should only be used with children in grades 4 and above.
B)They can be helpful for English-language learners.
C)They are ideal to use when students have difficulty pronouncing unknown words that appear in their reading materials.
D)All words in an English dictionary only have one accent mark.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which is a true statement about phonics?

A)We should not teach phonics because there are so many inconsistencies related to the spelling of words in English.
B)Phonics is the most important goal when teaching young children to read.
C)Reading to gain meaning is the most important goal in a reading program; thus, phonics instruction should occur with connected text whenever possible.
D)Phonics should be taught in a systematic manner; therefore, all students should be taught the same phonics concepts at the same time.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Students illustrate words, label them, and file them alphabetically in a notebook when constructing _______ dictionaries.

Question 5

Function words, such as the and or ,

A)are easily recognized and learned by readers.
B)have concrete meaning only.
C)have syntactic meaning only.
D)None of these.

Question 6

All the following are aspects of structural analysis except

A)context.
B)prefixes.
C)compound words.
D)syllabication.

Question 7

A strategy to teach context clues that uses a passage where terms are systematically deleted and replaced with blanks is the

A)cloze passage.
B)syntactic passage.
C)context passage.
D)rehearsal passage.

Question 8

The recognition of words without conscious thought is referred to as _______.

Question 9

If the meanings of the words surrounding the unfamiliar word help to identify it for the reader, the reader is using _______ clues.

Question 10

According to the ______________  _______________ theory, a reader who struggles with word identification will tend to have difficulty with comprehension.

Question 11

Before reading a story, going through the selection and analyzing the pictures for information is called a _______ _______.

Question 12

A recognized list of 220 common terms used as a resource to teach sight words is the

A)word wall.
B)key vocabulary list.
C)Dolch list.
D)environmental print list.

Question 13

Using familiar prefixes, root words, and suffixes to help in word recognition is called _______ analysis.

Question 14

Phonics involves the association of speech sounds, or _______________, with printed symbols, or _____________.

Question 15

Children learn early to recognize some sight words by visual _______, or shapes.

Question 16

_______ is a form of scaffolding students' learning by supplying cues.

Question 17

Which represents the first layer in the word study instruction sequence?

A)the alphabetic layer
B)the pattern layer
C)the meaning layer
D)the context layer

Question 18

In figuring out the pronunciation of an unfamiliar word, students should

A)consult a dictionary.
B)use a dictionary only as a last resort.
C)use a thesaurus.
D)never use a dictionary.

Question 19

As a teaching strategy, presenting unknown words along with known words in specific ratios is the

A)language experience approach.
B)incremental rehearsal technique.
C)language experience approach.
D)look-and-say strategy.

Question 20

What is false about prefixes and suffixes?

A)They are usually not accented.
B)They usually form separate syllables.
C)They can change the parts of speech and the meaning of their root words.
D)Students begin to encounter them when they are in the fifth grade.

Question 21

Suppose you are a first-grade teacher with a student having difficulty with word recognition. Explain three ways that you could use context clues to help the student with this difficulty.

Question 22

Explain how a word wall can be used to scaffold sight word vocabulary development of emergent and struggling readers.

Question 23

During guided reading, one of your first-grade students is reading a sentence and becomes "stuck" when trying to read the word orphan . You know that it's important to provide coaching rather than simply telling him the word. List at least three questions that you could ask him that would could assist him in recognizing the word.

Question 24

How can teaching Latin and Greek affixes help all students, and particularly English-language learners?

Question 25

A colleague of yours, Mrs. Garcia, is a new teacher and wants to know if you can provide advice about helping students use a systematic way to recognize words. Explain the five steps of the word-recognition procedure that is described in this chapter.

Question 26

Why is consulting the dictionary a last resort for word recognition?

Question 27

A parent of one of your first-grade students writes you the following email:
Dear Brian's Teacher,
I am worried about Brian's ability to learn to read because he tells me that he does not practice flash cards in school too much. I thought that being able to read sight words was the most important goal in teaching beginning readers.  I remember spending lots of time when I was in school practicing sight words on flash cards. Why is this no longer happening in first grade?
Sincerely,
Mrs. Martin  
Write a response to Mrs. Martin to explain your philosophy about teaching sight words. Be sure to include a theory or research study in your reply.

Question 28

What is the place of reading connected text in a word-recognition program?

Question 29

Explain why teaching a single word identification technique is not an effective instructional approach for teachers.

Question 30

Why is it important to explicitly teach young students sight words?