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6. Which of these languages has a syllabary system?

  • Japanese
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Arabic

7. What is the most common type of dyslexia?

  • Deep
  • Phonological
  • Developmental
  • Surface

8. Which of these languages does not have an alphabetic system?

  • Russian
  • Korean
  • Japanese
  • Italian

9. What does the reading approach of phonics emphasise?

  • Children should read for meaning and pleasure
  • Building the lexicon without strengthening the grapheme-phoneme rule system
  • Teaching grapheme-phoneme correspondence
  • Not correcting children when they make errors

10. In what type of dyslexia, is the indirect route damaged?

  • Surface
  • Phonological
  • Deep
  • Developmental

11. What is it called to move from guessing to sequential decoding?

  • Selective visual association
  • Cipher stage
  • Print awareness
  • Orthographic regularity

12. In what type of dyslexia, is the direct route damaged?

  • Developmental
  • Phonological
  • Surface
  • Deep

13. Which is not a characteristic of deep dyslexia?

  • Morphological errors i.e. adding prefix/suffix
  • Semantic errors e.g. read kitten as cat
  • Worse at reading irregular words
  • Confuse visually similar words

14. What is not a problem for the effect of storybooks on reading skills?

  • Adults usually don't draw children's attention to the text
  • Doesn't have much of an effect on later reading performance
  • Children become distracted by the story itself, making it difficult for them to learn
  • Children tend to look at the pictures, not the words

15. Which language has vowels as well as consonants in the alphabet?

  • Hebrew
  • Persian
  • Korean
  • Arabic

16. What does the reading approach of whole-word instruction emphasise?

  • Building up the lexical representations naturally
  • Building the lexicon without strengthening the grapheme-phoneme rule system
  • Words need to be repeated frequently
  • Building up the number and complexity of letters

17. What do reading readiness programmes focus on?

  • Pragmatic use of language
  • Awareness of basic grammatical structures
  • Metalinguistic awareness
  • Communication and expression

18. In what type of dyslexia, are people worse at reading unfamiliar words and non-words but better at reading familiar words?

  • Developmental and deep
  • Deep and surface
  • Phonological and deep
  • Phonological and surface

19. What happens during the cipher stage?

  • Becoming aware that text encodes language
  • Start to pay attention to the alphabetic principle
  • Learning what a phoneme is
  • Moving from guessing to sequential decoding