Many screening measures can be considered diagnostic since they provide extremely detailed data about a students skills in particular literacy domains.
False
If a student needs work on phonics and decoding, what kind of informal diagnostic assessment would provide the most useful information on how to help this student with these skills?
b. a word-reading survey to show which sound-symbol correspondences the student knows and which ones still need practice
Which of the following is not an area of inquiry to include in a comprehensive diagnostic assessment of a potential reading disorder?
d. social interactions
Which of these literacy skills have students typically mastered by the end of third grade? Select all that apply.
a. advanced phonemic awareness
c. inflectional morphology
d. fluent recognition of word families (rime patterns)
Cody is in first grade. He almost never raises his hand to participate in class discussions. When called on, he replies very briefly. He tends to use vague words like stuff and rarely uses full sentences. During decoding exercises, he reads words accurately and easily recognizes common patterns; he is a good speller. When he reads stories aloud, he reads fairly accurately but in an expressionless monotone. Which assessment would be most likely to yield valuable information about Cody?
b. reading a story to him and having him orally retell it
- According to the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress, what percentage of fourth-grade students have scored “basic” or”below basic” in reading?
64% nationally, with African-American and Hispanic students making up a disproportionate amount
Reading comprehension is not a single construct. Rather, the ability to understand what you read relies on multiple components. Once readers become more skilled in word recognition, which of the following components increase in their importance?
background knowledge and vocabulary
Which statement most accurately describes how the human brain has evolved to process spoken and written language?
Our brains have evolved to process spoken language much more easily than alphabetic writing.
What characteristic makes English a “deep” alphabetic orthography?
Its spelling system represents meaningful parts (morphemes)
According to the Simple View of Reading model, which is more important to reading comprehension- word recognition or language comprehension?
Both are equally important.