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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