Ways of closing the language gap for language-poor children early on include (select all that apply):
improving daycare and preschool programs.
-AND- coaching of infants' parents.
-AND- interventions to stimulate language development in young at-risk children.
Every word a student is expo...
Phonics Training Units 1-4 exam
questions and answers
What characteristic makes English a "deep" alphabetic orthography? - answer Its spelling system
represents meaningful parts (morphemes) as well as sounds.
Which statement most accurately describes how the human brain has evolved to process
spoken and written language? - answer Our brains have evolved to process spoken language
much more easily than alphabetic writing.
Which skills are least correlated with reading comprehension in children? - answer visual-motor
skills and visual-spatial reasoning
According to the Simple View of Reading model, which is more important to reading
comprehension—word recognition or language comprehension? - answer Both are equally
important.
According to the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress, what percentage of fourth-
grade students have scored "basic" or "below basic" in reading? - answer 64% nationally, with
African-American and Hispanic students making up a disproportionate amount
Which of these is an example of morphology? - answer We know the words unique, uniform,
united, and universe all contain the root uni, meaning "one."
How does the language system of pragmatics help us to understand why written language is
more structured than spoken language? - answer Social context and nonverbal gestures help
the listener understand spoken language, so there is less need for it to be highly structured.
Which statement best describes the relative importance of oral reading fluency and verbal
comprehension as factors in reading comprehension? - answer As children get older, verbal
comprehension becomes more important than oral reading fluency.
, What adds to the challenge of becoming literate? Select all that apply. - answer All meaning
resides in the written words alone; there is no additional physical context or gestures, facial
expressions, etc., to support meaning.
-AND- Reading and writing require learning new forms of language, such as changes to sentence
structure, discourse, and presentation of vocabulary and semantics.
Which is a characteristic of discourse in spoken language? - answer It does not use paragraphs
and tends to be disorganized.
English vowels are easier for students to pronounce and write than consonants. - answer False
What makes r-controlled vowel sounds so confusing for students? - answer The r takes over the
preceding vowel sound.
Which of the following sounds is considered a front vowel? - answer /ā/
Which of the following vowels require that the mouth shift position during production of the
sound? Select all that apply. - answer /oi/ -AND- /ou/
Spanish has 22 phonemes represented by 27 symbols, compared to English's 44 phonemes and
26 symbols. - answer True
The variations common in African American English are predictable and governed by rules. -
answer True
Which of the following misspellings likely results from confusion about unaspirated or
deaspirated stop consonants? - answer spelling skip as "sgip"
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