Relier Pairs IV LEVEL UNIT 4 LET ME EXPLAIN Lesson 2Version en ligne Matching questions to the corresponding answers par Martha Uribe 1 How common is dyslexia? 2 What happens when we read? 3 What does dyslexia affect? 4 What do many dyslexic people grow up thinking about themselves? 5 Who is Beatrice Davenport? 6 What is dyslexia? 7 What do many dyslexics actually have? the founder of the Davenport Center for Understanding Dyslexia high IQs; great logical abilities; incredible creativity a person’s ability to look at words accurately and connect them to sounds automatically a condition that makes reading, writing, and spelling difficult common; around ten percent of people have some level of dyslexia that they are unintelligent or inattentive Our brains recognize the letters on the page, recall the sounds they represent, and put those sounds together into words. 1 What happens to dyslexic kids in school? 2 How can schools help dyslexic kids? 3 What is the truth about the intelligence of dyslexic kids? 4 Who did she blame for his reading trouble? 5 What should dyslexic kids spend time on? 6 When did she realize it was dyslexia? 7 When did she become interested in educating people about dyslexia? 8 What did she think about her son before he started school and why? during a conversation with her friend herself at first and then his teacher They tend to get discouraged. (things that come easily to them She believed he was a smart boy because he never had difficulty speaking. Some have above-average IQs and others have average or below-average IQs, just like any other group. focus on teaching and testing methods that aren’t text-based after she found out her son was dyslexic