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1. Why did the National Institute of Health and Human Development classify reading diffi- culties as a major health concern? 2. Discuss the types of writing systems in the world. (Pictogram, logograph, syllabic sym- bols, and alphabetic symbols). How do they differ? How are they the same? ...
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1. Why did the National Institute of Health
The inability to read
and Human Development classify reading
well is associated with
diffi- culties as a major health concern?
social ills such as
dropping out of school,
delinquency, inade-
quate health care,
unwant- ed pregnancy,
and chronic
underemployment.
They cannot read
prescrip- tion bottles,
but can still open them,
2. Discuss the types of writing systems in the cant read road signs,
world. (Pictogram, logograph, syllabic and cant read the in-
sym- bols, and alphabetic symbols). How struction on anything.
do they differ? How are they the same?
Pictograms-directly
repre- sent meaning,
hieroglyph- ics.
Logographs-abstractly
rep- resent meaning,
not sound, Chinese
radicals.
Syllabic symbols-
directly represent
whole syllables,
Cherokee.
3. What is morphophonemic language? Why
is it more difficult to learn it? Alphabetic symbols-
repre- sent consonants
and vow- els, or
individual phonemes,
Greek or Russian.
Morphology is the
study of meaningful
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in a lan- guage and howthe units
are combined in word for- mation.
Nat- is a root.
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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
letter-sound corre-
4. How do oral language and written spondences and
language differ? morpholo- gy.
Speaking is natural,
reading and writing are
not.
Spoken language is
"hard-wired" inside the
hu- man brain.
5. Discuss the terms phoneme, morpheme, Oral language is the
and grapheme giving examples of each..? founda- tional skill for
later reading and
writing.
Phoneme-units of sound
in a specified language
that distinguish one
word from another
(p,b,d, and t in Eng- lish
words pad, pat, bad,
and bat.)
Morpheme-unit of
language that cannot
be further divid- ed (in,
6. What is the three cueing system? come, -ing, forming
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incoming.)
Grapheme-a unit (as a letter or digraph) of a
writing sys- tem.
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