Students with Learning Disabilities Who Are Poor Readers Have Been

question 28

Multiple Choice

Students with learning disabilities who are poor readers have been shown to

• A) use context clues as their major word-decoding strategy.
• B) be good at decoding but not at comprehension.
• C) profit best from sight-word training.
• D) demonstrate equal deficits in arithmetic reasoning.

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