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◉ d. both foundational reading skills and oral language development.
Answer: Many students at risk for reading problems enter school
without exposure to the academic language used in books or preschool
experience. These students are most likely to make progress closing the
reading and language gap if their classroom instruction emphasizes
which of the following?
a. oral language comprehension and reading aloud
b. attending to context, including semantic and syntactic cues
c. matching students with interesting reading material
d. both foundational reading skills and oral language development
◉ a. early alphabetic. Answer: A beginning first-grade student is able to
segment and pronounce the first sound in a spoken word. He tries to
guess at words by looking at the first letter only. When he writes words,
he spells a few sounds phonetically, but not all the sounds. According to
Ehri, this student is most likely in which phase of word-reading
development?
a. early alphabetic
b. later alphabetic
, c. prealphabetic
d. consolidated alphabetic
◉ b. phonology. Answer: A kindergarten teacher is having students listen
to three spoken words and identify the two words that end with the same
sound. The teacher is focusing on which language system?
a. morphology
b. phonology
c. orthography
d. semantics
◉ d. Determine if the students need remediation in word recognition,
language comprehension, or both. Answer: Considering the Simple View
of Reading, what would be the BEST course of action for a third-grade
teacher with concerns about several students who have not achieved
fluency?
a. Observe whether students are able to work on several subskills at
once.
b. Verify that students have been engaged in independent reading at
home for 20 minutes every day.
c. Increase demand on students to improve their passage reading rate.
d. Determine if the students need remediation in word recognition,
language comprehension, or both.