Matching Pairs IV LEVEL UNIT 4 LET ME EXPLAIN Lesson 2Online version Matching questions to the corresponding answers by Martha Uribe 1 What is dyslexia? 2 What do many dyslexics actually have? 3 What happens when we read? 4 What does dyslexia affect? 5 How common is dyslexia? 6 What do many dyslexic people grow up thinking about themselves? 7 Who is Beatrice Davenport? high IQs; great logical abilities; incredible creativity that they are unintelligent or inattentive the founder of the Davenport Center for Understanding Dyslexia a condition that makes reading, writing, and spelling difficult 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 1 What happens to dyslexic kids in school? 2 What should dyslexic kids spend time on? 3 What is the truth about the intelligence of dyslexic kids? 4 What did she think about her son before he started school and why? 5 Who did she blame for his reading trouble? 6 When did she realize it was dyslexia? 7 How can schools help dyslexic kids? 8 When did she become interested in educating people about dyslexia? They tend to get discouraged. after she found out her son was dyslexic herself at first and then his teacher during a conversation with her friend 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 She believed he was a smart boy because he never had difficulty speaking. (things that come easily to them