Chapter 4: Understanding Word Recognition Difficulties

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What is orthographic mapping?

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In reading, the mental process used to store words for later, instant retrieval.

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Orthographic mapping requires: Semantic knowledge of words, Good visual memory and visual–auditory paired-associate learning, Letter-sound proficiency and phonemic awareness proficiency.

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Letter-sound proficiency and phonemic awareness proficiency.

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Which of the following would most likely be the best demonstration of advanced phonological awareness? Quickly and accurately responding to a phonological blending task, Quickly and accurately responding to a rhyming, alliteration, or first-sound task, Quickly and accurately responding to a phonological manipulation task, Quickly and accurately responding to a phonological segmentation task

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Quickly and accurately responding to a phonological manipulation task

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Where does it appear that phonological blending fits into word-reading?

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When combined with letter-sound knowledge, it allows students to develop phonic decoding skills.

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What is the significance of the phonological lexicon?

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All of the above are significant aspects of the phonological lexicon.

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At the earliest stages of reading development, what is the most effective way for children to remember words? Options: By having words posted around their kindergarten classroom (e.g., having the word chair posted on a chair), By anchoring letters in the word to whatever phonological aspects of the word they can notice/be aware of, By visual memorization techniques, All of the above are equally helpful for beginning kindergarteners.

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By anchoring letters in the word to whatever phonological aspects of the word they can notice/be aware of

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At which level of reading development are phonological skills important? Options: Level 1: Letter-sound knowledge, Level 2: Phonic decoding, Level 3: Orthographic mapping, Phonological skills are important at all three levels.

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Phonological skills are important at all three levels.

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How are written words stored for later, instantaneous retrieval?

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Letter sequences in written words become aligned/attached to the phoneme sequences in spoken words.

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All of the following statements about learning irregular words are true except which one? Nearly the same process that is used to store phonically regular words is also used to store phonically irregular words. Very few words in the English language are irregular in more than one letter-sound connection. The letter-sound connections that are regular within irregular words can be used to build a phonological framework for remembering them.

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Irregular words require a different storage process compared to regular words.

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Which of the following ideas about reading fluency has the most research support? Providing students with much reading practice is the key to fluency., Reading fluency is a function of the size of a student’s sight vocabulary., Reading fluency is primarily based on students’ processing speeds in terms of how quickly they can read the words they know., Reading fluency represents an independent element in the bigger read- ing picture alongside phonemic awareness, phonics, and reading com- prehension.

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Reading fluency is a function of the size of a student’s sight vocabulary.