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Question

The –ist ending is a

A grapheme.

B morpheme.

C phoneme.

D lexeme.

Answer

Answer B is correct. Morphemes are the smallest units of language that can have meaning; here, the
–ist suffix means “one who practices.”

Sometimes it’s helpful to analyze several different components of one word. Let’s look at the word
harpist. We’ve labeled some important parts of this word.

Review

• Morphemes are the smallest units of language that create individual meaning.
• Onset and rime are parts of syllables; the onset is the first consonant, and rime is made
up of the vowels that follow and consonants that follow the onset.

Teaching Phonics

Making students aware of phonemes and how they work together to create morphemes is important,
but it’s only a means to teaching them to be strong readers and effective writers. Learning phonemes
and how they work is like getting familiar with the parts of the engine that make the car run. Now, let’s
look at how to get students behind the wheel.

Styles of Phonics Instruction

In practice, most teachers probably use a hybrid of different phonics instruction styles. However, the
one backed by most researchers is synthetic phonics. In some ways, we’ve been talking about this
style of instruction already in this course. Synthetic phonics instruction begins by teaching aspiring