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TExES CORE Subjects EC-6 (391): English
Language Arts and Reading Questions and
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Prefix Ans: A letter or letters at the beginning of a root word that
changes its meaning
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re, de, un
Semantics Ans: The study of word or symbol meaning
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"love" which has many different meanings in English
Literal vs figurative meaning of "Raining cats and dogs"
Free Morpheme / Unbound Morpheme Ans: type of morpheme that
can stand alone or can appear with other morphemes in a lexeme
Simple words (i.e. words made up of one free morpheme, such as the,
run, on, etc.) and compound words (i.e. words made up of two free
morphemes, such as keyboard, greenhouse, etc.) are free morphemes.
Punctuation Ans: marks, such as period, comma, and parentheses, used
in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify
meaning.
period
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Phonics / Graphophonemic Principle Ans: Using the relationship
between symbols (letters and words) and sounds of a language to read
and write
Countable Nouns Ans: nouns that have a quantity that can be
determined using numbers
potatoes, clients, buildings
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Determiner Ans: words that provide information about nouns; vital for
forming meaningful statements or questions
a, an, the, this, that, my, your, some, many
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Decoding Ans: In reading out loud, being able to sound out words by
breaking them into simple forms. In reading for comprehension, the
understanding of how to read each letter or letter pattern in a word to
determine the word's meaning
Thesaurus (Digital) Ans: an online thesaurus
thesarus.com
Dictionary (Print) Ans: use when you need to define a word
Oxford English Dictionary
Antonyms Ans: words with the opposite meanings
hot/cold; and big/little
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Open Syllable Ans: Syllable that ends in a vowel; the vowel has its long
sound
vacant, brutal, agent
R-Controlled Syllable Ans: Syllable that contains a vowel followed by the
letter r; the r controls the vowel and changes the way the vowel is
pronounced
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car, guitar, mother, and manor
Sight Word Ans: word that cannot be decoded because it doesn't
follow standard phonics rules and must be recognized by sight
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of, was, the, would
Letter-Sound Correspondence Ans: knowing what sound(s) each letter
makes
the letter "f" makes the first sound in the word "foot"
Suffix Ans: A letter or letters at the end of a root word that changes its
meaning
s, es, ed, ing, ly, er, or, ion, tion, able, and ible
Phoneme Blending Ans: the ability to blend two sounds to make a word
Blend together these sounds to make a word: /b/ /a/ /t/ to form bat.
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Uncountable Noun Ans: nouns that do not have a quantity that can be
determined using numbers
water, love, safety
Glossary Ans: a list of important words to know along with their meanings
Hyponyms Ans: words that fall under a more general term
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Hyponyms for clothes are sweater, pants, shirt, etc.
Connotation Ans: the implied meaning of a word; the feeling a word
conveys
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Describing a person as "shrewd" may make them feel negatively, even
though the definition (sharp-witted, intelligent) is positive.
Vowel-Consonant-E Syllable Ans: The vowel-consonant-e syllable has a
silent "e" and makes the vowel before it long; this syllable is usually found
at the end of a word
name, mice, cake, compete
Final Stable Syllable Ans: A consonant + -le syllable occurs at the end of
a word. If the consonant + -le syllable is found next to an open syllable,
then the vowel in the open syllable stays long. If the consonant + -le is
next to a closed syllable, the vowel in the closed syllable stays short.
bugle, candle, bubble, circle, and trample