PSYC 3210 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Physical Attractiveness, Social Class, James Marcia
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Ch 8 intelligence and academic achievement 11/3/2014 6:12:00 pm. Acquisition of academic skills: reading, writing, and mathematics. Reading: chall"s five stages of reading development. Stage 0 (birth until 1st grade) children acquire key prerequisites for reading including phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness: ability to identify component sounds within words. Knowledge of the individual sounds within words. Stage 1 (1st and 2nd grades) children acquire phonological recording skills. Phonological recording skills: ability to translate letters into sounds and to blend sounds into words; informally called sounding out. Stage 2 (2nd and 3rd grades) children gain fluency in reading simple material. Stage 3 (4th-8th grade) children become able to acquire reasonably complex, new information from written text they read to learn . Once they can read fluently, they have a different drive to read acquire knowledge. Stage 4 (8th-12th grade) acquire skill not only in understanding information presented from a single perspective, but also in coordinating multiple perspectives.
