Knowledge and Skills Statement
Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--vocabulary. The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively.
Supporting Information for ELA.6.2.C
Research
Pacheco, M. B., & Goodwin, A. P. (2013). Putting two and two together: Middle school students' morphological problem-solving strategies for unknown words. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 56(7), 541–553. doi:10.1002/JAAL.181
Summary: Researchers Pacheo and Goodwin discuss strategies that assist students in determining word meaning. One such strategy includes figuring out words by breaking down in their smallest parts, such as affix, root word, and suffix. The recommendations suggests this approach as a means to learn unknown words.