Question

Teachers and parents usually call attention to the pictures when they read storybooks to preschool children. But a new study tells that calling attention to the words and letters on the book may lead to better readers.

The two-year study compared（比較）children who were read to this way in class with children who were not. Those whose teachers most often discussed the words showed clearly higher skills in reading, spelling and understanding.

Shayne Piasta, a professor of teaching and learning at Ohio State University, says most preschool teachers would need only a small change in the way they teach. They already read storybooks in class. The only difference would be increased attention to the printed words.

Ms. Piasta says if you get children to pay attention to letters and words, it makes sense that they will do better at word spelling. But she says studies show that very few parents and teachers do this in a systematic（系統(tǒng)的）way.

They watched more than three hundred children aged four and five in classrooms in Ohio and Virginia. The children came from poor families and were poor in their language skills. They may become bad readers when they enter primary schools later.

Professor Justice says children’s language skills can be improved by discussing with him or her when you are reading a book to a child. There are different ways that adults can talk to children about the letters and words on the page. They can point to a word and discuss the shape of it with a finger. They can point out a word: “This is ‘dog’.” They can discuss the meaning of the word or how the words tell the story. And they can also show how words are written left to right in English.

1.What does the underlined phrase “it makes sense” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A. It can be understood and agreed.

B. It is impossible to happen.

C. It can be difficult to imagine and describe.

D. It is surprising to see.

2.What can we infer from the passage?

A. Parents are more important than teachers for little children.

B. Teachers need to learn a lot to use the new teaching way.

C. It’s impossible for preschool children to understand words.

D. Skills are important to children’s reading development.

3.The writer wants to tell us that _________.

A. preschool children should have higher discussing skills

B. parents should make a plan to teach their children reading

C. teachers should help children pay attention to printed words

D. languages skills should be discussed with preschool children

 

Answer 1

1.A

2.D

3.C

【解析】

試題分析：這篇短文的作者想要告訴我們，老師和家長通常讓幼兒園的孩子看圖。但是研究表明，看文字可能會更好。經(jīng)過對看文字和不看文字閱讀的孩子的為期兩年的比較發(fā)現(xiàn)，那些通過文字來閱讀的孩子表現(xiàn)出更好的讀寫和理解能力。

1. sense“理解；明白；意識到”是固定搭配，故選A。

2. preschool teachers would need only a small change in the way they teach.及最后一段大意可知技巧對孩子認字是很重要的。故選D。

3.

考點：教育類閱讀