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A second-grade teacher, in preparation for reading a new text
about honeybees, asks the students to brainstorm all the
meanings they know for the word comb. The teacher is primarily
focusing on which language system?
a. phonology
b. semantics
c. orthography
d. morphology - Correct Answer-b. semantics
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 - Correct Answer-b. phonology
, 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. - Correct Answer-
d. Determine if the students need remediation in word
recognition, language comprehension, or both.
In any first-grade classroom in a typical school in the United
States, approximately one-third of students are likely to score in
the "basic" or "below basic" range. The largest proportion of those
students is likely to show which characteristics?
a. primary difficulties with phonology, decoding, and word
recognition
b. primary difficulties with phonology only
c. primary difficulties with automatic word recognition only
d. primary difficulties with language comprehension only -
Correct Answer-a. primary difficulties with phonology, decoding,
and word recognition