Author Question: Suzy is a first grader who has the typical comprehension monitoring difficulties of a child her age. ... (Read 94 times)

maegan_martin · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Suzy is a first grader who has the typical comprehension monitoring difficulties of a child her age. She is given a set of blocks and directions for how to arrange them, but the directions are incomplete and actually won't lead to a coherent arrangement. Suzy is most likely to respond to these directions by:

A. asking for more instructions so she can make the arrangement herself.
B. asking the experimenter to arrange the blocks for her.
C. arranging the blocks as best she can, as if she did not notice the instructions were bad.
D. refusing to play with the blocks at all.

Question 2

One developmental improvement in narrative story telling involves children ability to make the referents of pronouns clear to the their listener. That is, when they say she did it they make it clear exactly who she is. This is an example of improved:

A. cohesion.
B. coherence.
C. story grammar.
D. noun compounding.