M&M-Multisyllabic Words and Morphemes

Students who know all of their letter names and sounds will have all the skills needed to read multi-syllabic words if they just sound out the word grapheme by grapheme.

False

Select the 3 words (real or nonsense) that are a vowel team syllable type.

clown
clue
night

A vowel team syllable type contains _____.

a team of graphemes/letters (2, 3, or even 4) that represent a vowel sound. Vowel teams should be taught with a letter-keyword-sound to help students associate sounds with the correct spelling.

When guiding the demonstrated syllable sort activity for all 6 syllable types, it is important to guide students to sort based on which syllable?

 

the last syllable

Which one of the following would not be a rule to guide syllable division?

 

always divide after a consonant when there are 2 vowels separated by one consonant

Select the list of words that contains examples of words where students might have to flex the way they divide the syllables (and flex the vowel sound) when reading an unknown word.

 

relish, resend, omen

When learning to divide words into syllables, it is very important for students to focus on both where the vowel are within the word, and how they sound based on the syllable pattern.

True

Select the best response for the definition of structural analysis.

 

breaking words apart into base words and affixes to be able to decode the word
 

breaking words apart into base words and affixes to be able to know the meaning of a word

Select the 4 questions that students might ask when analyzing the structure of an unknown multi-syllabic word.

Does the word end in -s, -es, -ed, or -ing?
Does the word have an apostrophe?
Is the word made up of two smaller words?
Does the word have affixes?

Select the correct steps to apply the HINTS routine for structural analysis.

 

Highlight the affixes, Identify the consonant and vowel sounds in the base word, Name the base word, Tie parts together, Say the word

Select the guidance that Jennifer gives about choosing a consistent structural analysis routine to use with your students.

 

Any teacher generated acronym that helps student's internalize and use structural analysis to decode a word and help determine the word's meaning.

Which two things are true about the morphological structure of the word "respecting"

 

respect is a free morpheme
 

-ing is a bound morpheme

A difference between a root and a base word is that a root is usually __________.

bound

Derivational suffixes are suffixes that _____________________.

change the part of speech

"The teacher asked the students to read together." The -s suffix in students is an example of what type of suffix?

 

inflectional suffix

Select the 2 responses that are true about the sequence of structural analysis and morphology instruction.

 

Teach common suffixes explicitly prior to structural analysis and morphology instruction so that students can use the word accurately in their oral language.
 

Teach affixes prior to teaching Latin roots.

The Morphology Boggle Game provides an opportunity for students to practice blending syllables together, but not segmenting.

False - It provides students an opportunity to both blend and segment multi-syllabic words with roots and affixes.

Creating and displaying word sum matrices with direct instruction is a strategy for teaching a student decoding skills, vocabulary, and _______________.

spelling

Select the skill that K-2 students do NOT have to master before they begin analyzing multi-syllabic words for decoding and meaning.

 

complete mastery of reading all six syllable types within multi-syllabic words

Sticky notes are a tool that students can use to apply structural and morphological analysis to contextual reading.

True

Identifying syllables along with analyzing word structure and morphology are necessary skills to develop proficient decoding and comprehension of multi-syllabic words.

True