Vocabulary Development Flashcards
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A Frayer Model is a vocabulary strategy that asks students to provide a definition, characteristics, examples, and non-examples. This deepens learning by:
Answer: Requiring students to process word meaning from multiple angles
The Frayer Model requires students to analyze a word from four perspectives, promoting deep processing and long-term retention.
Wide reading (reading many different books and texts) contributes to vocabulary growth primarily through:
Answer: Incidental exposure to unfamiliar words in meaningful contexts
Wide reading exposes students to a large variety of words in meaningful contexts, supporting incidental vocabulary acquisition over time.
When a teacher pre-teaches vocabulary before students read a text, the primary benefit is:
Answer: Reducing cognitive load so students can focus on comprehension
Pre-teaching key vocabulary reduces the number of unknown words students encounter during reading, freeing cognitive resources for comprehension.
Word consciousness refers to students who:
Answer: Are aware of and interested in words and their meanings and uses
Word consciousness is a disposition toward and interest in words — noticing, appreciating, and collecting new words — which supports vocabulary growth.
The word 'bicycle' can be analyzed morphologically to teach that 'bi-' means:
Answer: Two
The prefix 'bi-' means two (as in bicycle = two wheels), and teaching this helps students decode and understand words like biannual, bilingual, and bisect.
A student knows 'predict' and encounters 'predictable' in text. Using the base word to understand the new form demonstrates:
Answer: Morphological generalization
Using knowledge of a base word and a known suffix to understand a derived form is morphological generalization.