Session 1 RISE ELB18056

Low student achievement was one of the factors that prompted The Right to Read Act (Act 1063 of 2017). What is listed as the approximate percentage of Arkansas students who were actually reading at grade level when this research was being done?

• About 10

• Below 40

• Around 60

• Nearly 70

In examining brain scans as children read, it has been found that proficient readers access words from the left side of the brain, while struggling readers "pull" words from the right side. What kind of information is stored within the right side of the brain?

• Images

• Sounds

• Emotional memory

• Orthographic maps

Arkansas educators are being asked to make a shift from using levelized readers to using decodable texts in small-group reading instruction. What makes a text truly decodable for a student?

• The text contains only words that have been on the student's spelling lists up to that point.

• The text contains only one- and two-syllable words and no more than one sentence per page.

• The student has been explicitly taught strategies like using illustrations to figure out unknown words in the text.

• The student has been explicitly taught the phonetic skills necessary to read most words found in the text.

Why is a basic knowledge of how children learn to read important for all teachers, regardless of grade level or subject area?

• So administrators can talk to any educator about new literacy programs or materials.

• So every teacher can include small group reading instruction in the classroom.

• So literacy teachers and specialists can ask any other educator for assistance.

• So any teacher can be an active voice in advocating for a struggling reader.

Regarding the number of hours a child has been read to, there are drastic discrepancies between children from middle-class homes and children growing up in poverty. On average, children from a typical middle-class home have been exposed to over a thousand hours of reading. About how many hours of reading are children growing up in poverty exposed to?

• 15

• 25

• 70

• 95

Assistant Commissioner Smith mentions studies that have correlated the educational attainment of students to which of the following considerations?

• The work hours of caretakers

• The number of people living in the home

• The level of education of immediate family members

• The number of books in the home.

We know that illiteracy is the inability to read. What is aliteracy?

• Having the ability to read, but choosing not to.

• Having a very basic reading level compared to peers of similar age and/or profession

• Having a reading level high enough for basic tasks, such as ordering off a menu

• Having the ability to read, but no access to books