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