Sixth grade teacher Jean Murphy was frustrated. The poorest readers in her class read very
few books while the most capable readers read many books and enlarged their vocabularies.
This situation is an example of the:
a) Peter Effect
b) Matthew Effect
c) Alphabetic Principle
d) Concepts about Print
Question 2
When Marcus encountered a word that he didn't know, he used the surrounding words and
sentences to determine its meaning. In that situation, Marcus used:
a) decoding skills
b) context clues
c) analogy
d) the alphabetic principle