Helping preschoolers who significantly lag behind their peers in language skills is unimportant ...

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FALSE

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FALSE

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TRUE

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The ability to remember and recognize a word as a whole unique unit (word) without having the ability to sound it out is a good definition.
Labels and nametags aid word recognition and rereadings of favorite books helps the skill develop, but some children bypass sight reading and first learn to read by analyzing sound units. Having been endowed with a good visual memory is a gift.

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They have different shapes, names, and sounds and are different from numerals. They make words, including their own name. They may know the sounds of some letters and may recognize a few familiar words like stop when they see them.

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1.letter-shape knowledge or letter recognition
2.letter-name knowledge
3.letter-sound knowledge
4.letter-writing ability
This requires
1.distinguishing visual features, shape, orientation, directionality, and key features.
2.understanding alphabet letters are symbols, each with a name in both upper and lower case.
3.knowing an alphabet letter has a different sound, and sometimes multiple sounds.
4.actually forming a close replica.

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That one begins in the left-hand corner of the page when reading it; one reads a line from left to right; at the end of a line one returns to the far left of the line that has been read to go on; pages are numbered; a book often starts on page 1; there is a difference between letter, word, and sentence; there are spaces between words; small marks are called punctuation marks and they have different names and meanings; and there are big (uppercase) and small (lowercase) alphabet letters.