Based on What You Have Learned About Language Development,what Advice

question 7

Multiple Choice

Based on what you have learned about language development,what advice would you give to new parents who are concerned about their child's literacy and later success in school?

• A)Use flashcards of vocabulary words to increase vocabulary size.
• B)Allow children to develop according to their own inner timetable,because all children eventually develop similar levels of vocabulary knowledge.
• C)Children should have formal reading instruction beginning in preschool.
• D)Parents and caregivers should provide lots of good quality language experience and practice by asking questions and elaborating on many topics of interest to their children.

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Definitions:

Right-Skewed

A description of a distribution of data where the tail on the right side of the histogram is longer or fatter than the left side, indicating that the mean is greater than the median.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in the data set deviate from the mean.

Mean

A measure of central tendency that is calculated by dividing the sum of all values in a dataset by the number of values.

Right-Skewed

Refers to a distribution where the tail on the right side of the histogram is longer or fatter than the left side.