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As a poet I can't really call it vocabulary. We learn new words by playing with and twisting meaning. Vocabulary grows as we delve deeper into passions or perform for those in power.
Dictionary
Those still a thing? Teach students dictionary skills regardless if they use print or digital sources. At the same time technology has shifted the way dictionaries work. They get embedded everywhere and students can access them by touch, voice or through print.
You need to review the parts of a dictionary definition with a student They need to understand how to handle multiple entries, prefixes and suffixes (online does this better)and the basic text structure of a dictionary entry.
What Makes a Word
Words get constructed through strings of morphemes, the smallest unit of language that hold meaning. Some morphemes can stand on their own in terms of meaning. We call these free morphemes. This would include book or case.
Other morphemes get bound to another morpheme to make sense. This can include inflectional suffixes like plural words “-s” in “bookcases” making the word consist of three morphemes.
Basically words rooted in Anglo-Saxon English are free morphemes. Prefixes and suffixes, Greek roots, and Latin roots are bound morphemes. Makes sense. That's the stuff people stick on words to sound smarter.
Root Words and Derivational spellings
Root words can not get broken down into smaller parts. They are free morphemes.
In terms of word families as rimes these do not hold meaning there are 37 gorups of rimes, the ending sound of words in the English language.
In terms of root words and morphemes we mean stuff like pyro and cardio
Cadence, Rhythm, and Prosody
Words have different sounds and sounds strung together can make meaning in ways words can never do simply in print.
When you read the Common Core State Standards phonological awareness ends at 2ng grade. As if switching phonemes around or playing with rhyme and double meanings of morpehemes no longer matter.
Folks talk of prosody, the bits of language bigger than morpeheme but the linguistics tones, stresses and rhythms that can let you know what neighborhood someone's from as if just involves reading and fluence.
Prosody is poetry and a product of playing with sound.
Alliteration: Avoid Always.
Consonance: Cranking on chunks and clunks that use consonants
Assonance Sounds frown on the lounge and use vowels
Cadence The Beat