Discuss the importance of assessing knowledge of word-study skills.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 2...Besides phonics, explain other ways that children can figure out words.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 3...Play reveals young children's developing competencies relating to language and literacy, including all except the following:
a. a sense of topic
b. the function of text
c. the concept of proximity
d. the structure of language
Question 4...Miss Jackson wants to teach phonemic awareness to her kindergarten class; in particular her objective is for her students to separate onsets and rimes. Which of the following is the most appropriate activity for this?
a. Do an activity with the word pan, in which students practice saying p-p-p-p an as they tap their legs from their toes to their knees.
b. Show students some words and ask them to circle all the ones that rhyme.
c. Ask students to chart the number of syllables in their names.
d. Ask students to name all the words they know that begin with the letter p.
Question 5...Of the following, which one is determined by a child's rate of reading, accuracy, expression used, and phrasing?
a. pronunciation
b. fluency
c. comprehension
d. phonemic awareness
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