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