NYSTCE MULTI-SUBJECT (BIRTH-2): ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

Semantics CORRECT ANSWER -The meaning and interpretation of words, signs, and sentence structure -Study within linguistics dealing with language and how we understand meaning Nuance CORRECT ANSWER Subtle differences in meaning or shades of meaning we associate with words Consonant blend CORRECT ANSWER Two consonants, such as the letters 'b' and 'l' put together to create one sound, or phoneme Phonics CORRECT ANSWER Teaching method used to help people learn to read and pronounce words by recognizing the sounds that letters and letter groups make Morpheme CORRECT ANSWER Smallest unit of grammar Syntax CORRECT ANSWER -Arrangement of words and sentences to create meaning Prefix CORRECT ANSWER A morpheme that precedes a base morpheme Base Morpheme CORRECT ANSWER Morpheme that gives a word its essential meaning Free Morpeheme CORRECT ANSWER Morpheme that can functional as a stand-alone word. Bound Morpheme CORRECT ANSWER Exclusively attached to a free morpheme for meaning. Prefixes and suffixes are the most common examples Derivational Morphemes CORRECT ANSWER -Can be either a suffix or a prefix, and they have the ability to transform either the function or the meaning of a word -Example: adding the suffix -less to the noun meaning Decoding (Phonics) CORRECT ANSWER -Process of reading words in text -Understand what the letters are, the sounds made by each letter and how they blend together to create words Encoding (Phonics) CORRECT ANSWER -Process of using letter/sound knowledge to write