LERTS UNIT 1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED AND GRADED A

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LERTS UNIT 1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED AND GRADED AWhy did the National Institute of Health and Human Development classify reading difficulties as a major health concern? The inability to re... ad well is associated with social ills such as dropping out of school, delinquency, inadequate health care, unwanted pregnancy, and chronic underemployment. They cannot read prescription bottles, but can still open them, cant read road signs, and cant read the instruction on anything. Discuss the types of writing systems in the world. (Pictogram, logograph, syllabic symbols, and alphabetic symbols). How do they differ? How are they the same? Pictograms-directly represent meaning, hieroglyphics. Logographs-abstractly represent meaning, not sound, Chinese radicals. Syllabic symbols-directly represent whole syllables, Cherokee. Alphabetic symbols-represent consonants and vowels, or individual phonemes, Greek or Russian. What is morphophonemic language? Why is it more difficult to learn it? Morphology is the study of meaningful units in a language and how the units are combined in word formation. Nat- is a root. Nature is a noun; natural is an adjective; naturalist is a noun; naturally is an adverb. This also means that it is a "deep" alphabetic writing system organized by both lettersound correspondences and morphology. How do oral language and written language differ? Speaking is natural, reading and writing are no [Show More]

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