Word Analysis Flashcards

A student reads 'phone' correctly as the /f/ sound word. Which type of phonics knowledge is the student applying?

Answer: A grapheme-phoneme correspondence for 'ph' representing /f/

The digraph 'ph' is a grapheme that represents the phoneme /f/. Correctly reading 'phone' demonstrates knowledge of this ph to /f/ correspondence.

What is the primary purpose of teaching syllabication strategies to readers?

Answer: To help students decode multisyllabic words by breaking them into manageable parts

Syllabication strategies give readers a tool for segmenting long, unfamiliar multisyllabic words into smaller decodable units, making decoding more manageable.

The word 'unbreakable' can be analyzed morphologically as:

Answer: One free morpheme and two bound morphemes

Unbreakable consists of un- (bound prefix) plus break (free root) plus -able (bound suffix): one free morpheme and two bound morphemes.

Which statement best describes the Vowel-Consonant-e (VCe) syllable type?

Answer: The first vowel is long because the final e signals it across the intervening consonant

In a VCe syllable, the final silent 'e' signals that the preceding vowel is long, as in make, pine, hope, and cube.

Which of the following is a correct example of the VC/CV syllable division pattern?

Answer: nap/kin dividing between the 'p' and 'k'

VC/CV splits a word between the two consonants when two consonants appear between vowels: nap-kin divides between 'p' and 'k', yielding two closed syllables.

Which word contains a derivational morpheme?

Answer: teacher (teach plus agent -er)

The suffix -er in 'teacher' is a derivational morpheme: it changes the verb 'teach' into the noun 'teacher,' altering the word's part of speech.