CALT Syntax and Sentence Structure 3

Question 1

Morphosyntax refers to the intersection of:

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Morphology meaning word structure and syntax meaning sentence structure

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Morphology and phonology

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Syntax and semantics

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Etymology and orthography

Question 2

Teaching students to use signal words such as although, therefore, and however in writing primarily develops:

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Syntactic and discourse-level writing skill by marking logical relationships between ideas

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Phonological awareness

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Morphological awareness

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Reading fluency

Question 3

A student consistently writes The dogs runs fast reflecting confusion with subject-verb agreement. This most likely reflects a weakness in:

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Morphosyntactic awareness specifically agreement marking

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Phonological processing

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Syllabication skills

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Rapid automatized naming

Question 4

A CALT working on sentence-level writing with a student might use sentence expansion activities, which involve:

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Adding modifying phrases and clauses to a basic kernel sentence to develop syntactic complexity

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Shortening long sentences into simple ones

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Converting sentences to questions

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Deleting adjectives from sentences

Question 5

Understanding complex inverted conditional sentences such as Had she studied she would have passed the test requires:

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Advanced syntactic knowledge of inverted conditional constructions

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Basic sight word knowledge

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Phoneme manipulation skills

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Only vocabulary knowledge

Question 6

When teaching syntax explicitly, a CALT might use which evidence-based approach?

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Using the sentence combining technique to help students generate more complex sentence structures

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Having students diagram sentences silently

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Teaching students to identify and label parts of speech in isolation only

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Asking students to copy complex sentences from the board