Words of the Week: #9

Words of the Week: #9

1) Affixes- suffixes or prefixes attached to a base word, stem, or root.

(Bear, Donald R., et al. Words their Way, Pearson, 2020.)

 Affixes are important because they are one of the building blocks of meaning within a word. Once a student knows the meaning of an affix, they can use that to understand the rest of the word they are reading. 
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2) Morphemic Analysis- the process of analyzing or breaking down a word in terms of its meaning units or morphemes.

(Bear, Donald R., et al. Words their Way, Pearson, 2020.)

 Morphemic analysis is important because it can help students understand a word and its meaning easier. The students can break down and study the word. This allows them to look at the word more closely and get a different understanding of that word. It provides an alternative way of looking at the meaning of a word.

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3) Inflectional Endings- suffixes that change the verb tense (walks, walked, walking) or number (dogs, boxes) of a word.

(Bear, Donald R., et al. Words their Way, Pearson, 2020.)

 Inflectional endings are very important because they change the verb tense. They help students to determine whether something is taking place in the past or the present. It can determine whether there was one "cat" or multiple "cats." Students will be confused and not be able to become proficient readers if they don't understand what inflectional endings are. 

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4) Syllable Juncture- the transition from one syllable to the next. Sometimes this transition involves a spelling change such as consonant doubling or dropping the final -e before adding -ing. 

 (Bear, Donald R., et al. Words their Way, Pearson, 2020.)

 These are very important. The book stated that syllable junctures are very confusing and they need to be taught extensively for children to understand them. It can often to lead confusion between words such as diner and dinner. They need to know what happens to a word when there is a spelling change because that helps them become better readers and writers.
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5) Domain Specific Academic Vocabulary- specialized vocabulary used in disciplinary studies.

(Bear, Donald R., et al. Words their Way, Pearson, 2020.)
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 Domain specific academic vocabulary is crucial for students because they are tier 3 level words. This should be one of your goals as a teacher, to lay the foundation for them to get to that level. These words are important especially to a specific subject area. 


6) General Academic Vocabulary- vocabulary that occurs across all disciplines and is related to students' school success.

(Bear, Donald R., et al. Words their Way, Pearson, 2020.)

 These types of words are very important because these words occur across all areas of study. Therefore, they are used more often. These are the types of words students are going to encounter more often when they are reading and they will even include them when they are writing. 
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7) Accented Syllables- the syllables in a word that receives more emphasis when spoken and usually has a clearly pronounced vowel sound.

(Bear, Donald R., et al. Words their Way, Pearson, 2020.)

 Accented syllables are important in terms of speech. Students simply need to understand how that word is articulated or pronounced when spoken. When they speak, they will know how to pronounce this syllables within a word if they were taught appropriately. They won't stumble upon their words when speaking. 

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8) Unaccented Final Syllables- the syllable in a word that gets little emphasis and may have an indistinct vowel sound, such as the first syllable in about, the second syllable in definition, or the final syllables in doctor or table.

(Bear, Donald R., et al. Words their Way, Pearson, 2020.)

 These are important as well when students speak. The reason is because these syllables don't have a distinct or stressed sound when they are spoken. Therefore, students have to be taught how to pronounce and articulate these sounds appropriately. 
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