Author Question: When Marissa, an English Language Learner, read the sentence, Blow out your birthday candles, she ... (Read 19 times)

geoffrey · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

When Marissa, an English Language Learner, read the sentence, Blow out your birthday
candles, she became confused because she had never had a birthday cake. A lack of
background knowledge that affects comprehension can be categorized as a:

a) text factor
b) reader factor
c) miscue
d) semantic error

Question 2

Researchers have described four levels or degrees of word knowledge. Students reach the
highest level, full word knowledge:

a) with only some of the words they encounter
b) with all words they encounter in their instructional program
c) only with words that follow spelling conventions
d) only with words derived from Latin and Greek roots