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  1. Which phonological awareness skill is typically assessed first when evaluating a student suspected of dyslexia?

    Answer: Rhyme recognition

    Rhyme recognition is an early-developing phonological awareness skill assessed before more complex tasks like phoneme segmentation.

  2. A student scores at the 10th percentile on a rapid automatized naming (RAN) test. This result primarily indicates difficulty with:

    Answer: Processing speed and retrieval fluency

    RAN tasks measure processing speed and lexical retrieval fluency, both of which are core deficits associated with dyslexia.

  3. When administering the Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (CTOPP-2), which subtest measures the ability to delete individual phonemes from words?

    Answer: Phoneme Elision

    The Phoneme Elision subtest on the CTOPP-2 requires the student to say a word after removing a specified phoneme.

  4. A dyslexia evaluator notices a student reads real words significantly better than nonsense words. This pattern most strongly suggests:

    Answer: Reliance on sight word memory rather than decoding

    A real-word advantage over pseudoword reading indicates the student relies on memorized word forms rather than phonological decoding skills.

  5. Which standardized assessment is most appropriate for measuring a student's oral reading fluency with normative data?

    Answer: Gray Oral Reading Tests (GORT-5)

    The GORT-5 measures oral reading rate, accuracy, fluency, and comprehension with standardized normative scores.

  6. A student exhibits slow reading speed but high accuracy. During assessment, this profile best warrants investigation into:

    Answer: Reading fluency and automaticity

    Slow but accurate reading suggests a fluency deficit, where decoding is intact but not yet automatized.

  7. When interpreting a discrepancy model for dyslexia identification, which comparison is the evaluator examining?

    Answer: IQ score versus reading achievement score

    The IQ-achievement discrepancy model compares a student's intellectual ability to their reading achievement to identify unexpected underperformance.