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Engaging, Brisk, and
Multidimensional Word Study (Focus on Grades K-5)
Susan M. Ebbers
April 1, 2011 UCF, Orlando, Literacy Symposium
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Language: A Growth Construct
Slowly our lexicon grows, through many encounters with the word in varying context over time
Persist!
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Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
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the weight
of the word
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The English Language is Complex
• Challenging to learn to read in English
• Greater syllabic complexity
• Greater orthographic depth
– Based on comparisons with other European
orthographies
Seymour, P.H.K., Aro, M., & Erskine, J.M. (2003). Foundation
literacy acquisition in European orthographies. British Journal of
Psychology, 94, 143-17.
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words in thousands
(estimated)includes multiple meanings,
idioms, phrases, slang, etc.
www.languagemonitor.com
English– A Vast Language
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Dictionary Ahead!
PROCEED with CAUTION
Dictionary definition of erode is „to eat out‟
Student writes: “My family erodes often.”
– Stahl, 1999, p. 17
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Beware!
• Memorizing weekly word lists from the dictionary, with little cognitive engagement, is not likely to be effective
Bos & Anders, 1990; Bryant et al., 2003; Jitendra et al., 2004; Nagy, 2007
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Unveiling
Academic
English
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Estimates from a computerized survey of about 80,000 words in
the old Shorter Oxford Dictionary (3rd ed.), published in Ordered
Profusion, Finkenstaedt & Wolff (1973)
The English Language
Latin
French
Germanic
Greek
Other
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French
/sh/
chef
charade
chivalry
chauffeur
panache
Greek
/k/
chaos
archaic
charisma
technology
anchor
Sort Itschool, which, champagne, chronic, Chardonnay
Anglo-Saxon
/tch/
child
chin
ditch
chide
such
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Anglo-Saxon
final silent e
stone
take
bridegroom
outside
mine
French
long a /ā/
fiancé
sauté
risqué
touché
puree
Greek
long e /ē/
epitome
sesame
catastrophe
calliope
Penelope
Sort It
phoebe, passé, anemone, side, appliqué, psyche
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Counting in Greek and Latin
Greek Latin
1 mono uni
2 di bi, du, duo
3 tri, tris tri
4 tetra qaudri
ten deca, deka deci
half hemi semi
many poly multi
centimeter
millennium
octave
pentagon
duodecennial
quatrimillennial
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"Kindling students' interest and
engagement with words is a vital
part of helping all students, but
especially less advantaged
students, to develop rich and
powerful vocabularies”
(Graves, 2006, p. 120)
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“Nearly half of incoming freshmen cannot read their
textbooks fluently” (Carnegie Corporation, 2002)
“Morphological knowledge is a
wonderful dimension of the child‟s
uncovering of “what‟s in a word,” and
one of the least exploited aids to
fluent comprehension”
(Wolf, 2007, p. 130)
This may be true, but...
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What’s in a Word?
Are these real words? What might they mean?
ugsome
malductive
vincible
candent
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bleachers?
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The mind analyzes every stretch of
language as some mixture of
memorized chunks and rule-
governed assemblies.
Pinker (1999)
Words and Rules, p.26
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Word-Savvy Students & Linguistic FormsInflection, Compound, Derivation
derivations
inflections
compound words
boy, farm, coldbase words
boys, farmed, farming, colder, coldest
boyfriend, farmhouse, coldhearted
boyish, boyishly, boyhood,
farmer, Farmington, farmstead
(Anglin, 1993; Berko, 1958; Tyler & Nagy, 1989; Wysocki & Jenkins, 1987)
syntax shift
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Compound Words
A Morphological Process
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• doghouse
• ice cube
• red-winged blackbird
• pickpocket
• Lazy Susan
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Compound AwarenessDon’t Take it for Granted!
(Nagy, Berninger, Abbott, Vaughan, & Vermeulen, 2003)
What would you call the
grass where bees hide?
beegrass or grassbee?
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Circle the whiteball tree
Morphological Awareness MeasureWordPLAY (Ebbers, 2011)
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Compound WordsBuild, Invent, Describe, Discuss
Pool of word cards
green drop
light night
fly horse
dog flash
rain fire
house coat
Real word Invented word
doghouse horsedog
Verbalize it. Describe the meaning:A doghouse is a house for a dog.
My horsedog is a dog that neighs like a horse.
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To help students learn words more
effortlessly and durably, link phonology,
morphology, orthography, semantics
and syntax
(see Berninger et al., 2010; Perfetti, 2007, 2011; Wolf, 2007)
Yes, but HOW ?????
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Morphemes: Sort by Meaning
unlock
unbroken
unshaken
unwrap
unafraid
unkind
untangle
unable
untrue
untie
Highlight the prefix in each word.
Sort words:
Doing words (verbs)
Describing words (adj)
Write a sentence for each.Try to put two words in one.
We are unable to unlock the door.
We untangle and untie the laces.
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Morphemes: Sort by Meaning
teacher
kinder
helper
painter
reader
faster
swifter
farmer
leader
greater
larger
Highlight the suffix in each word.
Sort:
Suffix means “one who”
Suffix indicates “more”
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Morphemes: Sort by Meaning
Sun
Sunny
Sunshine
Sunk
Suntan
Sunniest
Which words belong to the same family (share the same base word)?
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Morphemes: Sort by Meaning
act
actor
actress
active
ace
tractor
react
action
activity
Which words belong to the same family (share the same base word)?
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(noun)
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Morphological Families of Words
Create networks of related words. Make a word wheel for the base word sun
sunniest
sunlight
sunny
sunnier
sun
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“drop in” for a visit
just “drop by”
dropletdroplets
dropper
dropkick
eye droppereye droppers
drop
drop
dropsdroppingdropped
lemon dropgum dropteardrop
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portfolio
portable
portability
supportsupporter
supportive
unsupportive
supportively
importimporter
importation
deportdeportee
deportation
port: to carry (L.)
transporttransporter
transportation
reportreporter
unreported
importantmorphemic analysis
doesn‟t always work
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20 Most Frequent Prefixes in School
Texts1. unable
2. review
3. inedible (immobile, illegal, irresponsible)
4. distrust
5. enlighten (empower)
6. nonsense
7. inside (implant)
8. overload
9. misguide
10. submarine
11. preheat
12. interview
13. forewarn
14. derail
15. transfer
16. supersonic
17. semicircle
18. antifreeze
19. midterm
20. underfed
American Heritage Dictionary
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prefix re- not prefixreheat
red
return
read
rebuild
rewind
rendition
reciprocity
refer
Will the Real Prefix Please Stand Up?
reheat red
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Derivational Suffixes!
Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
What a ____ poem!
(ribatism, ribatious, ribation, ribatize)
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“I got a D- on my vocabulary
test…Man, my parents are
going to be so auspicious!”
Does he know
this derivational
suffix?
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Phonological and/or Orthographic Shifts
• heal → → healer → → health
• wise → → wisely → → wisdom
• please → → pleasant → → pleasure
• ignite → → ignition
• provide → → provision
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Shift happens…rather a lot
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Students skilled in morphemic and
contextual analysis have the potential
to increase their vocabulary breadth
and depth substantially.
(Edwards, Font, Baumann, & Boland (2004)
in Baumann & Kame ’enui, p. 161)
Note: For Grades 4-12
Efficacy inconclusive for severe reading disability
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Joe and Stan arrived at the party at 7:00
o‟clock. By 9:30, the evening seemed to drag
for Stan. But Joe really seemed to be having a
good time at the party. “I wish I could be as
gregarious as he is,” thought Stan.
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A Key Goal: Morphemic Analysis in Context
Adapted from Bringing Words to LifeBeck, McKeown, and Kucan, 2002
sociable
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Word Savvy Students Master
Morphologically Complex Words
By sixth grade, about 60% of the word
meanings in printed school English might be
inferred through knowledge of morphemes,
along with context clues
(Nagy & Anderson, 1984)
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context + morphemes = meaning
This student feels confident and capable
when confronted by unknown vocabulary.
I think I can, I think I can…
Word-Savvy Students are Strategists
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Morphemic Analysis in Context
Here’s a new word in our story: tripod. It says, “He put the camera on the
tripod.” I wonder what a tripod could be?
Let’s say the word again, syllable by syllable,
and look for a meaningful part: tri-pod
Have you heard tri before—in triangle, tricycle, triceratops?
How many sides on a triangle? Three.
How many wheels on a tricycle? Three.
How many horns on the dinosaur triceratops? Three.
Do you think a tripod might have three of something? Three what?
What does the story say about the tripod?
(source: Mountain, 2005)
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Every Moment Counts
• Leverage spoken language
• Learn language naturally
• Progress to the ____.
• This way to the great ____.
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Spoken Language
• Make explicit use of spoken
language to teach new words
– Connect semantics, phonology,
morphology, orthography, and
syntax
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50
=Discuss It!
A bunk is a sort of
bed, but a bunk is
usually smallish, and
stacked.
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Enjoy words together!
Verbalize! Express!
Make connections!
Review: Make lasting
friends with words
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In Sum:
• Kindle interest and engagement
• Use discussions, directions, oral language
• Provide a student-friendly definition
• Provide context
• Link phonology, morphology, orthography,
semantics and syntax
• Provide distributed practice
• Invest time in vocabulary daily
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