Reading comprehension Home Exercise- 05, PASSAGE C

 14.   What can be concluded form the study done by treiman and Zudowski?

A.      That 4-5 year old children found the task based on phonemes easy.

B.      That 6-year –old children find it easier to read since they have been learning for a year.

C.      That the same- different task, where words like spit and wit were  compared, was comparatively easier for 4to 5 years old, than the task where plea and pray were compared.

D.      That the same- different tasks, where words like plea and plank or where plea and pray were compared were easier for 4-5 year olds then the task where wit and spit were compared.

15.   How can the scope of the second paragraph be extended to the following set of words: nut, hut, cut, sun?

A.      4-5 year olds can recognize the odd one out.

B.      All the words share the same rime.

C.      4-5 year olds find it difficult to recognize the odd one out as these sets of words contain three syllables.

D.      To recognize the odd one out children require the awareness of initial consonants in a syllable and a crime.

16.   Provide a suitable title for the passage.

A.      Development of Reading Habit in Children

B.      Development of Language in children

C.      Importance of Reading Progress

D.      Phonological Awareness amongst children

17.    What is meant by phonological awareness?

A.      The deficit of recognizing units, into which a word is divided, containing a vowel sound and usually one or more consonants.

B.      The deficit of recognizing the terminal sounds of words.

C.      The deficit of recognizing initial consonants in a syllable.

D.      All of the above.

18.   According to the passage, the ______ around the ages of 4-5, whereas ____ at around the age of 5-6.

A.      Phonological awareness begins…. Reading and writing skills develop

B.      Knowledge of syllables, onsets and rimes generally begins …. Phonemic judgment

C.      Specific phonological deficit can be found in children ….it can be overcome

D.      Difficulty in recognizing a word with one syllable happens. … Difficulty in recognizing a word with three syllables happens.

19.   What is the synonym of the word “precursor” mentioned in the third paragraph?

A.      Requirement

B.      Forerunner

C.      Descendant

D.      Obstacle

Answer and Explanations

14.     C    option A is wrong , since the paragraph clearly mentions that children of the age 4 to 5 find the task based  on phonemes tougher than that based on onset –rime . Option B is obviously wrong since the study did to conclude anything about reading of 6 year olds, option d is rejected since the words plea and pray are ones which share the initial phonemes , and this version is not easy for 4 to 5 year old. The best answer option is C since according to it the words like spit and wit, which share the same rime, were easier for 4 to 5 year olds to recognize than words like plea and pray that share the same phoneme.

15.      D    option A is wrong since the second passage takes the example of fan, cat, hat, mat to describe that a 5 year old finds it difficult to recognize the odd one out. Similarly in this set of words, sun differs from nut, hut and cut in rime, is difficult to recognize for a 4 to 5 year old. Option B is obviously wrong, since the rime of sun is different from other words in the same way as fan is different form cat, hat and mat. We reject option C because it mentions that these words contain three syllables. However, these words contain lesser syllables than the word valentine which has three syllables. Option D is the most satisfactory answer, since according to the paragraph; the task of recognizing the odd out of similar words and awareness of the sub- syllabic units of the onset and the rime is required. 

16. D  This passage contains details of phonological awareness and  level of phonological skills amongst children . Thus, option A is rejected since the passage is not about reading  habit, . Option B is also rejected since it does not deal with language, but sounds of a language. Option C is also rejected since the passage does not concentrate on reading process but on the basis of reading process, as well as the development of phonological skill with knowledge of reading. Option D is the best option since it describes the passage completely. 

17.   D   option A is rejected since it means that phonological awareness means deficit of recognizing syllables, however, it also sane deficit of recognizing rimes, onsets as well as  phonemes. Similarly, option b is rejected since it mentions only deficit of recognizing the terminal sounds of words, which are the same as rimes. Option C is also incomplete as they also mention deficit of  recognizing onset and phonemes respectively. Thus, the option D, that mentions all the choices, is the best answer.

18   B  we reject option A since it mentions that reading and writing develop at the age of 5 to 6, but the passage does not talk about writing skills at all. Option C is rejected since it mentions that a child becomes dyslexia at the age of 4 to 5, but in the passage it is mentioned in the first paragraph that it happens at the age of 9 or 10. option D is rejected since it can be understood from the passage that children or the age 4 or 5 can recognize words with one syllable, and nothing is mentioned about 5 to 6 year olds recognizing three syllables in a word.

     option B is the best answer choice since according to  the pasaage the awareness of syllables,  onsets, and rimes appears  to emerge at the age of 4 or 5 and that of phonemes at the age of 5 to 6.

19.  B  the word " Precursor" means something that precedes or comes before . A synonym of this word will be same in meaning. in the passage it is used to explain that awareness of onsets and rimes comes before reading.