Word Attack Skills

Word Attack Skills

Suffixes / Prefixes – Morphological Information

• Supply an affix – e.g. UN-, and bases e.g. happy, slow, tidy. – Task: Indicate which of the bases can take the affix

• Supply a base e.g. sharp and several affixes e.g. un-, -ly, -en, -ement, -ness– Task: indicate / find out which of the affixes the base can

take• Supply a list of affixes of similar function e.g. adjective

forming suffixes, -ful, -ous, -y, -ish and a list of bases– Indicate/find out which basewords take which affixes, and

if more than one is possible, what variations in meaning a involved e.g. manful, mannish, manly

Suffixes / Prefixes – Morphological Information

• Supply an incomplete table of forms consisting of basewords with various affixes– Task : complete the table by filling the gaps– Example

• Supply sentences containing words of a particular form e.g. verbs– Task rewrite the sentences in a specified way entailing

the use of a different form of the given word e.g. nouns instead of verbs.

– Example

Inference from Context

• A skill to teach when you do not want your students to refer to the dictionary– Slow down reading

– Interrupt thought process

– Free students from the dependence on text

• Making use of the context to give readers a rough idea of what the word means


1. She poured the water into the tock

2. Then, lifting the tock, she drank

3. Unfortunately, as she was setting it down again, the tock slipped from her hand and broke

4. Only the handle remained in one piece


• Use of cartoons / pictures to get them what context mean

• E.g The word is caesarean (for adult students)

THE REAL REASON WHY WOMEN HAVE CAESAREAN


• http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/~steuben/vocabularycontext.htm

• Give more exercises, sentence level to paragraph level, easy to difficult

• http://www.english-zone.com/vocab/vic02.html

Technology

Word Attack Skills