OAE Vocabulary Development 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A Frayer Model is a vocabulary strategy that asks students to provide a definition, characteristics, examples, and non-examples. This deepens learning by:
- Ensuring students memorize the exact dictionary definition
- Requiring students to process word meaning from multiple angles (Correct answer)
- Testing students' ability to spell difficult words correctly
- Building phonics skills through syllable analysis
Correct 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.
Question 2: Wide reading (reading many different books and texts) contributes to vocabulary growth primarily through:
- Providing structured, explicit instruction in new words
- Incidental exposure to unfamiliar words in meaningful contexts (Correct answer)
- Regular opportunities to practice phonics patterns
- Repeated reading of the same texts
Correct 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.
Question 3: When a teacher pre-teaches vocabulary before students read a text, the primary benefit is:
- Making the text shorter and easier to read
- Removing the need for students to use context clues
- Reducing cognitive load so students can focus on comprehension (Correct answer)
- Replacing the need for discussion after reading
Correct 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.
Question 4: Word consciousness refers to students who:
- Can correctly spell all grade-level vocabulary words
- Are aware of and interested in words and their meanings and uses (Correct answer)
- Have mastered all Tier 1 vocabulary at their grade level
- Use a dictionary before attempting to infer a word's meaning
Correct 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.
Question 5: The word 'bicycle' can be analyzed morphologically to teach that 'bi-' means:
- Fast
- Wheeled
- Two (Correct answer)
- Self-propelled
Correct 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.
Question 6: A student knows 'predict' and encounters 'predictable' in text. Using the base word to understand the new form demonstrates:
- Phonics transfer
- Morphological generalization (Correct answer)
- Semantic mapping
- Context clue inference
Correct answer: Morphological generalization
Using knowledge of a base word and a known suffix to understand a derived form is morphological generalization.
OAE Vocabulary Development 2
A Frayer Model is a vocabulary strategy that asks students to provide a definition, characteristics, examples, and non-examples.
This deepens learning by: