Deck 7: Word Recognition

Question 1

Which of the following is a bank of words that a student can understand during conversation?

A) Expressive vocabulary
B) Sight words
C) Sight vocabulary
D) Receptive vocabulary
E) None of the above

Answer 1

Receptive vocabulary

Question 2

A child's rhetorical knowledge, schema, and picture clues that he or she uses to figure out unknown words is called __________?

A) receptive vocabulary
B) structural analysis
C) visual analysis
D) context clues
E) none of the above

Answer 2

context clues

Question 3

What does structural analysis refer to?

A) The ability to distinguish frequently used prefixes and suffixes from root words and the knowledge of how they affect the meaning of words
B) Knowing all Latin and Greek root words
C) The ability to break words into smaller known parts to figure out unknown words
D) Words that students recognize in half a second or less
E) None of the above

Answer 3

The ability to break words into smaller known parts to figure out unknown words

Question 4

Examples of affixes are all of the following EXCEPT

A) pre
B) un
C) re
D) ab
E) ly

Question 5

All the following statements are true concerning words that aid visual analysis EXCEPT:

A) Open syllables end with a consonant.
B) Inflectional endings and suffixes are often syllables.
C) Vowels in unaccented syllables have the schwa sound.
D) Words with multiple syllables have at least one syllable that is accenteD)
E) Syllables have one vowel sound, even though there may be more that one vowel.

Question 6

Native English speakers and English learners develop their sight vocabularies in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

A) Memorizing a long list of word walls
B) Understanding known and then learning unknown words
C) Recognizing simple and then understanding complex words
D) Understanding literal and then appreciating metaphorical words
E) Understanding the meaning of the sight words

Question 7

What does the syntactic cueing system refer to?

A) The meaning of words
B) The meaning of a sentence
C) The grammar and sentence structure
D) The genre of the selection
E) None of the above

Question 8

What does the pragmatic cueing system refer to?

A) The meaning of words
B) The meaning of a sentence
C) The situational context of a word, sentence, or passage
D) The sentence grammar and sentence structure
E) The relationships between letters and their sound

Question 9

What does the semantic cueing system refer to?

A) The meaning of words, sentences, and longer passages in language
B) The situational context of a word, sentence, or passage
C) The sentence grammar and sentence structure
D) The relationships between letters and their sound
E) The genre of the selection

Question 10

The four cueing systems used in word identification are __________, __________, __________, and __________.

Question 11

Receptive vocabulary is ____________________.

Question 12

Sight words are ____________________.

Question 13

Context clues refer to ____________________.

Question 14

Visual analysis is ____________________.

Question 15

A prefix comes ___________ (before or after) a root word.

Question 16

Explain the components of word recognition and how rapid word recognition aids in reading comprehension.

Question 17

As a result of assessing one of your struggling readers, you have found that she does not recognize words such as of, the, in, how, and you; nor does she recognize word families. Explain what type of intervention you would provide.

Question 18

You have assessed two of your struggling readers and found that they do recognize most of the words from the Dolch list and most monosyllabic word families while they read. However, when they write they struggle with Dolch words and word families. Explain what type of intervention you would provide for these two students.

Question 19

You have found that a student struggles with polysyllabic words. He does not appear to recognize prefixes and suffixes in words and cannot divide words into syllables. Explain what type of intervention you would provide for this student.

Question 20

Discuss different ways to assess a child's sight vocabulary, her ability to use context clues, her ability to analyze monosyllabic words visually, and her ability to analyze polysyllabic words.