As mentioned in the text, the students’ decoding skills refer to:
In “(…) leveled books have come under fire”, the author uses “come under fire” to express that these books have been:
According to Wiley Blevins, text-difficulty levels don’t offer much practical use. The explanation for it is that:
Analyze the excerpt below.
“These systems are usually created by the books’ publishers, which purport to match students with books (…)”.
As regards it, mark the following statements as (C) if Correct, or (I) if Incorrect.
( ) “Purport” is a verb that means “to claim to be or do a particular thing when this claim may not be true”.
( ) If “oddly” replaces “usually”, the meaning of the sentence will remain the same.
( ) In the word “created”, -ed is a bound morpheme.
The statements are, from up to down, respectively:
By using the adjective “wary” in “(…) educators are now wary of leveled books (…)”, the author expresses that educators are: