Across
- 2. a kind of graphic organizer that shows the nature of a word's meaning relationships
- 3. using indicators surrounding a word to determine the meaning
- 7. words that have similar meanings
- 9. a sketch in which students map out what they know about a topic
- 12. knowledge of root words and affixes
- 13. knowing how a word applies to other knowledge
- 14. instruction on morphemes to determine a word's meaning
- 15. the most basic words that occur frequently in our language
- 16. words that are found across a variety of knowledge domains
- 18. acquiring new words in a text read independently
Down
- 1. a word that looks the same, sounds the same, and has the same meaning in two languages
- 4. students have a good understanding of a word's meaning
- 5. when a word is completely unfamiliar to a student
- 6. teaching of specific word meanings and of word-learning
- 8. words that have opposite meanings
- 10. how word meaning varies in different texts
- 11. a student-constructed box or a file/notebook with newly learned vocabulary words
- 17. when students have heard or read a word before and have some sense of its meaning
- 19. low-frequency words usually found in specific knowledge domains