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TExES CORE Subjects EC-6 (391): English Language Arts
and Reading Questions with Answers (100% Correct
Answers)
Prefix Answer: A letter or letters at the beginning of a root word that
changes its meaning
re, de, un
Semantics Answer: The study of word or symbol meaning
"love" which has many different meanings in English
Literal vs figurative meaning of "Raining cats and dogs"
Free Morpheme / Unbound Morpheme Answer: 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.
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Punctuation Answer: marks, such as period, comma, and parentheses,
used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify
meaning.
period
Phonics / Graphophonemic Principle Answer: Using the relationship
between symbols (letters and words) and sounds of a language to read
and write
Countable Nouns Answer: nouns that have a quantity that can be
determined using numbers
potatoes, clients, buildings
Determiner Answer: words that provide information about nouns;
vital for forming meaningful statements or questions
a, an, the, this, that, my, your, some, many
Decoding Answer: 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
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Thesaurus (Digital) Answer: an online thesaurus
thesarus.com
Dictionary (Print) Answer: use when you need to define a word
Oxford English Dictionary
Antonyms Answer: words with the opposite meanings
hot/cold; and big/little
Open Syllable Answer: Syllable that ends in a vowel; the vowel has its
long sound
vacant, brutal, agent
R-Controlled Syllable Answer: Syllable that contains a vowel followed
by the letter r; the r controls the vowel and changes the way the vowel
is pronounced
car, guitar, mother, and manor
Sight Word Answer: word that cannot be decoded because it doesn't
follow standard phonics rules and must be recognized by sight
of, was, the, would
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Letter-Sound Correspondence Answer: knowing what sound(s) each
letter makes
the letter "f" makes the first sound in the word "foot"
Suffix Answer: 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 Answer: the ability to blend two sounds to make a
word
Blend together these sounds to make a word: /b/ /a/ /t/ to form bat.
Uncountable Noun Answer: nouns that do not have a quantity that
can be determined using numbers
water, love, safety
Glossary Answer: a list of important words to know along with their
meanings
Hyponyms Answer: words that fall under a more general term
Hyponyms for clothes are sweater, pants, shirt, etc.
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TExES CORE Subjects EC-6 (391): English Language Arts
and Reading Questions with Answers (100% Correct
Answers)
Prefix Answer: A letter or letters at the beginning of a root word that
changes its meaning
re, de, un
Semantics Answer: The study of word or symbol meaning
"love" which has many different meanings in English
Literal vs figurative meaning of "Raining cats and dogs"
Free Morpheme / Unbound Morpheme Answer: 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.
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Punctuation Answer: marks, such as period, comma, and parentheses,
used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify
meaning.
period
Phonics / Graphophonemic Principle Answer: Using the relationship
between symbols (letters and words) and sounds of a language to read
and write
Countable Nouns Answer: nouns that have a quantity that can be
determined using numbers
potatoes, clients, buildings
Determiner Answer: words that provide information about nouns;
vital for forming meaningful statements or questions
a, an, the, this, that, my, your, some, many
Decoding Answer: 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
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Thesaurus (Digital) Answer: an online thesaurus
thesarus.com
Dictionary (Print) Answer: use when you need to define a word
Oxford English Dictionary
Antonyms Answer: words with the opposite meanings
hot/cold; and big/little
Open Syllable Answer: Syllable that ends in a vowel; the vowel has its
long sound
vacant, brutal, agent
R-Controlled Syllable Answer: Syllable that contains a vowel followed
by the letter r; the r controls the vowel and changes the way the vowel
is pronounced
car, guitar, mother, and manor
Sight Word Answer: word that cannot be decoded because it doesn't
follow standard phonics rules and must be recognized by sight
of, was, the, would
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Letter-Sound Correspondence Answer: knowing what sound(s) each
letter makes
the letter "f" makes the first sound in the word "foot"
Suffix Answer: 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 Answer: the ability to blend two sounds to make a
word
Blend together these sounds to make a word: /b/ /a/ /t/ to form bat.
Uncountable Noun Answer: nouns that do not have a quantity that
can be determined using numbers
water, love, safety
Glossary Answer: a list of important words to know along with their
meanings
Hyponyms Answer: words that fall under a more general term
Hyponyms for clothes are sweater, pants, shirt, etc.
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