Each child in a group of young

Answer choices

1. A

   Deepens Paradox13% picked this

   Because several words were used more than once in the paragraph but only once in the list, the list

   If the list is shorter than the paragraph, than one has less chance to make errors when reading the list. Thus, this answer goes in the opposite direction of what we need, which is a way to explain more errors when reading the list vs. the paragraph.

   13%
2. B

   Deepens Paradox, if anything8% picked this

   In reading the paragraph, the more experienced readers were better at using context to guess at difficult words

   This answer is telling us that the more experienced readers were better at employing a "secret weapon" to help them with reading the paragraph. This doesn't help us explain why the beginners were better at the paragraph than at the list. After all, this answer is saying "the beginners weren't as good at using X to help them while reading the paragraph."

   8%
3. C

   Correct61% picked this

   The more experienced readers sounded out difficult words, while the beginning readers relied solely on context to

   Why this is right

   This helps us address both of the distinctions we were trying to explain: - why are beginning readers more likely to make pronunciation errors when reading a list than when reading a paragraph? Because when the beginners read a paragraph they can use context to guess at difficult words. Lists of words offer no context (or at least much less context), so context won't help them guess difficult words, and difficult words are likely to be a source of pronunciation errors. Did the beginners have a different way to guess at difficult words when it came to reading the list? No, they relied solely on context for guessing. - how come this reason didn't also apply to the more experienced readers? The more experienced readers were sounding out difficult words, so they did better on whatever they performed second, because the difficult words they encountered during their second task overlapped with difficult words they had already practiced sounding out during their first task.

   Skill tested: Paradox · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   61%
4. D

   No Impact / No Distinction12% picked this

   Both tasks used the same words, so that the words the children read in whichever task was performed first would be

   We already knew that both tasks used the same words, because the first sentence of the paragraph tells us as much. This answer doesn't offer any distinguishing trait between the list and the paragraph, so it offers us no mechanism for explaining why beginners were better at one than the other.

   12%
5. E

   No Impact / No Distinction6% picked this

   The beginning readers made more pronunciation errors than the more experienced readers did in reading both the

   We weren't already told this yet, but we probably already assumed that the beginners made more errors than the experienced readers, since that's a common sense distinction between "beginner / more advanced". Our paradox has nothing to do with comparing the number of errors of one group to that of the other. It's all about, within the group of beginning readers, why were fewer errors made when reading from a paragraph than when reading from a list. This answer choice offers no distinction between paragraph / list.

   6%