Ch. 1 - Fluent Word Recognition and Phoneme Awareness

Question 1

The most direct route to good reading comprehension is to make the word recognition process (A) so a student can focus all of his or her mental energy on the meaning.

Answer 1

The most direct route to good reading comprehension is to make the word recognition process AUTOMATIC so a student can focus all of his or her mental energy on the meaning.

Question 2

Good readers do not struggle over words…When they see words, they (A) recognize them.

Answer 2

Good readers do not struggle over words…When they see words, they IMMEDIATELY recognize them.

Question 3

The mental process we use to efficiently store words is called (A B) - the precise letter order of words.

Answer 3

The mental process we use to efficiently store words is called ORTHOGRAPHIC MEMORY - the precise letter order of words.

Question 4

(A B) appears to be one of the most important skills associated with orthographic memory.

Answer 4

PHONEME AWARENESS appears to be one of the most important skills associated with orthographic memory.

Question 5

If all of the sub-processes of reading are (A) and (B), the student is almost certainly going to be a fluent word reading.

Answer 5

If all of the sub-processes of reading are FAST and AUTOMATIC, the student is almost certainly going to be a fluent word reading.

Question 6

The most common source of reading difficulties is poor (A B).

Answer 6

The most common source of reading difficulties is poor PHONEME AWARENESS.