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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

. 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 ...

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 ...

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...

syllable - ANSWER-The unit of pronunciation that is organized around a vowel; it may or may not have a consonant after the vowel Orthography - ANSWER-A writing system for representing language. morphophonemics - ANSWER-English orthography is morphophonemic which means that it is a deep alphabetic writing system organized by both sound symbol correspondences and morphology Morpheme - ANSWER-in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (such as ...

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 ...

Morphology - ANSWER-language system by which words are constructed out of letters, smallest meaningful unit is a morpheme, Pragmatics - ANSWER-language system of which is used for social interactions, and longer written or oral language determines type of expression required as well as the relationship of the speaker with the audience, Semantics - ANSWER-The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and the...

In comparison to other alphabetic languages, what feature of the English writing system makes English more difficult for young students to read and spell? - ANSWER-It is morphophonemic. What is one important distinction between the Four-Part Processing Model for Word Recognition and the Three-Cueing Systems model? - ANSWER-The Three-Cueing Systems model omits or obscures the role of phonology. Many students at risk for reading problems enter school without exposure to the academic language...

A student with dyslexia may also be intellectually gifted. - ANSWER-True Students who are slow at word reading and text reading, but can segment and blend sounds orally, typically have better outcomes than students with phonological processing deficits. - ANSWER-True Dyslexic is a term often applied to a large subset of poor readers. These readers' difficulties with accurate, fluent word recognition originate primarily with deficits in which of the following? - ANSWER-phonological process...