OAE Vocabulary Development 2

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:

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Requiring students to process word meaning from multiple angles

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Ensuring students memorize the exact dictionary definition

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Testing students' ability to spell difficult words correctly

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Building phonics skills through syllable analysis

Question 2

Wide reading (reading many different books and texts) contributes to vocabulary growth primarily through:

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Incidental exposure to unfamiliar words in meaningful contexts

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Providing structured, explicit instruction in new words

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Regular opportunities to practice phonics patterns

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Repeated reading of the same texts

Question 3

When a teacher pre-teaches vocabulary before students read a text, the primary benefit is:

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Reducing cognitive load so students can focus on comprehension

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Making the text shorter and easier to read

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Removing the need for students to use context clues

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Replacing the need for discussion after reading

Question 4

Word consciousness refers to students who:

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Are aware of and interested in words and their meanings and uses

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Can correctly spell all grade-level vocabulary words

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Have mastered all Tier 1 vocabulary at their grade level

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Use a dictionary before attempting to infer a word's meaning

Question 5

The word 'bicycle' can be analyzed morphologically to teach that 'bi-' means:

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Two

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Fast

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Wheeled

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Self-propelled

Question 6

A student knows 'predict' and encounters 'predictable' in text. Using the base word to understand the new form demonstrates:

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Morphological generalization

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Phonics transfer

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Semantic mapping

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Context clue inference