Alternative Format Quiz 2. Spr 2024

Automaticity in reading will lead to poor reading fluency.  

• True

• False

Guessing from pictures, word order, etc before “sounding it out” is good instruction to give a student who is trying to learn to read and spell well.  

• True

• False

TThere are many brain circuits needed for reading in the human brain, and most are overlaid on oral language circuits.

• True

• False

In Structured Literacy lessons, sound-letter correspondences are taught giving students practice with sounds in isolation first and then in the context of words. 

• True

• False

In assessments of reading, according to Kilpatrick, nonsense words can pick up reading deficits when testing with real words does not.

• True

• False

Teaching the inflectional ending -ing in the context of an instructional unit on identifying open and closed syllables in multisyllabic words follows the Structured LIteracy rule of keeping it challenging by using complex tasks. 

 

• True

• False

Listening comprehension is always much worse than reading comprehension in dyslexia.

• True

• False

In testing phonemic awareness skills, students should be checked on their ability to identify sounds in initial, medial and final positions in words.  

• True

• False

In order to support a 2^nd term second grader who knows his short vowel correspondences pretty well, but unlike his peers, is still reading words in grade-appropriate passages sound by sound, teaching phonemic awareness to at least the segmentation level is the best solution to help him master instant word recognition, according to current research. 

• True

• False

Substitution is the highest layer of phonemic awareness. 

• True

• False