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Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 Children who are read to daily start school with vocabularies about a third larger than those who are not, so reading aloud should be encouraged in every home. Text 2 The vocabulary gap is real, but homes where children are read to daily also tend to have more books, more conversation, and more time. Reading aloud may be a marker of those things rather than the cause of the gap.

Which choice best describes the relationship between the two texts?

  1. A. Text 2 accepts the finding reported in Text 1 but questions whether reading aloud itself explains it.Correct
  2. B. Text 2 denies that any vocabulary gap exists.
  3. C. Text 2 argues that reading aloud harms vocabulary.
  4. D. Text 2 recommends reading aloud more strongly than Text 1 does.

Answer: A. Text 2 accepts the finding reported in Text 1 but questions whether reading aloud itself explains it.

'The gap is real, but' — then other features of those homes as the possible cause.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. Text 2 denies that any vocabulary gap exists.
Text 2 says the gap is real.
C. Text 2 argues that reading aloud harms vocabulary.
Nothing of the kind.
D. Text 2 recommends reading aloud more strongly than Text 1 does.
Text 2 is more cautious, not more enthusiastic.

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