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Answer

Choice A is the correct answer. Remember that morphemes are those packets of meaning that can
either be a root, a prefix, or a suffix, and can be as short as a single letter. Choice D refers to correct
spelling.

Question

Which of the following involves drills intended to support automaticity with common words?

A Phonics through spelling

B Sight words

C Etymology

D Synthetic phonics

Answer

Choice B is the correct answer. Sight words are the most common one hundred or so words, the
ones that typically represent half or more of elementary texts. Students who have mastered a large
number of sight words will not waste time figuring them out, and will have completed reading a
sentence with some sense of what the more important words were trying to say.

Question

Which of the following best describes etymology?

A Conventions of spelling that can be generalized

B Words that are very common in most English texts

C The study of affixes

D The study of word histories

Answer

Choice D is the correct answer. Some familiarity with the Latin or Greek roots of larger words often
allows students to figure out the meaning of multiple forms of the word. Taken together with
morphology, which ties etymology to the study of morphemic prefixes and suffixes, etymology is a
powerful tool for building one’s vocabulary.