Letrs unit 1 stuvia - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

. 64% nationally, with African-American and Hispanic students making up a disproportionate amount - ANSWER-According to the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress, what percentage of fourth-grade students have scored "basic"; or "below basic"; in reading? a. 33% of students nationally, equally split among white, African-American, and Hispanic students b. 23% nationally, with African-American and Hispanic students making up a disproportionate amount c. 50% nationally, with white ...

b. The Three Cueing Systems model omits or obscures the role of phonology. - ANSWER-What is one important distinction between the Four-Part Processing Model for Word Recognition and the Three Cueing Systems model? a. The Four-Part Processing Model emphasizes visual processes. b. The Three Cueing Systems model omits or obscures the role of phonology. c. The Three Cueing Systems model emphasizes the role of phonology. d. The Three Cueing Systems model omits semantic processing. d. both ...

phonics - ANSWER-the study of the relationships between letters and the sounds they represent phonemic awareness - ANSWER-the conscious awareness of the individual speech sounds (consonants and vowels) in spoken syllables and the ability to consciously manipulate those sounds orthography - ANSWER-a writing system for representing language; how words are spelled, spaced, and punctuated morphophonemic - ANSWER-a deep alphabetic writing system organized by both "sound-symbol" corresponde...

Which of the following statements best describes an effective way to prepare students to listen to or read a text? - ANSWER-Establish the purpose for reading the text and impart background knowledge. Which of the following describes a product of comprehension, rather than a process? - ANSWER-verbalizing a summary or retelling of the text after reading Which of these statements is not true of students with specific comprehension difficulties? - ANSWER-They rely less on context to guess on t...

Based on the grapheme representing /sh/, which word is probably from French? - ANSWER-machine Which of the following words is most probably from the Anglo-Saxon layer of English? - ANSWER-playground Because of arbitrary and historical conventions governing English orthography, some letters can never be used to end a word. Which word can be explained by that principle? - ANSWER-have In phoneme-grapheme mapping, students first segment and mark boxes for the phonemes. Then, they map the gr...

T/F: Some very smart people have dyslexia - ANSWER-True T/F: Dyslexia may be inherited - ANSWER-True T/F: Children who can't read by age 9 never will - ANSWER-False T/F: Around 10-15 of the population have dyslexia - ANSWER-True T/F: Dyslexia is seeing things backward - ANSWER-False T/F: You can't identify dyslexic children before they enter school - ANSWER-False T/F: School improvement requires long-term commitment - ANSWER-True

early literacy - ANSWER-foundational skills learned from birth to 5-6 years of age. Big 5 Ideas in Reading - ANSWER-phonemic awareness phonics vocal fluency comprehension three areas used to predict of well kids read - ANSWER-oral language phonological processing print knowledge literacy factors with strongest impact - ANSWER-alphabet knowledge phonological awareness rapid naming of letters and numbers naming of objects or colors writing phonological memory listening le...

According to results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which of the following is true? - ANSWER-Gaps persist between certain subgroups of students. Reading comprehension is not a single construct. Rather, the ability to understand what you read relies on multiple components. Once readers become more skilled in word recognition, which of the following components increase in their importance? - ANSWER-background knowledge and vocabulary Which statement most accurat...

discourse - ANSWER-Written or spoken communication "or the exchange" of information and ideas, usually longer than a sentence, between individuals or between the writer and the reader. phonology - ANSWER-The rule system within a language by which phonemes can be sequenced, combined, and pronounced to make words. orthography - ANSWER-A writing system for representing language. morphology - ANSWER-The study of meaningful units in a language and how the units are combined in word formati...

Which is a characteristic of discourse in spoken language? a. It generally uses complete, well-formed sentences. b. It does not use paragraphs and tends to be disorganized. c. It may use unusual or topic-specific vocabulary. d. Its sounds are coarticulated in words. - ANSWER-b. It does not use paragraphs and tends to be disorganized. Which statement best describes the relative importance of oral reading fluency and verbal comprehension as factors in reading comprehension? a. As children ...