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Knowledge Check

Total questions: 6

Worksheet time: 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

______ is another term for background knowledge. It refers to •knowledge one has on a topic or subject.

a)

pragmatics

b)

phonological awareness

c)

inferences

d)

semantics

2.

Two factors that impact reading comprehension are______

a)

the difference in language discourse and difference in level of background knowledge

b)

the difference in level of background knowledge and students' ability to read 100 wpm

c)

the teacher and limited background knowledge

d)

semantics and word recognition

3.

All of the following are differences between informal and formal language except ___________•Vocabulary

Grammatical structures

Text structures

Inferencing

a)

vocabulary

b)

grammatical structures

c)

text structure

d)

background knowledge

4.

_________ is the ability to recognize and manipulate the letters of the alphabet, including letters in different sizes (uppercase and lowercase) and in different fonts

a)

letter knowledge

b)

vocabulary knowledge

c)

automaticity

d)

prior background

5.

__________ deals with defining and combining phrases, clauses, and sentences in a language.

a)

syntactic knowledge

b)

semantics

c)

automaticity

d)

reading rate

6.

True or False

Three distinct elements of linguist knowledge are phonological knowledge, semantic knowledge, and syntactic knowledge.

a)

True

b)

False