Which of the following children is most in need of immediate intervention? {Ans: a second-grade student who still decodes words letter by letter}A preschool child draws a stick figure and makes some unintelligible scribbles around it. When she shows it to her teacher. she points to the scribbles and says, "This says 'I love mommy.'" This behavior suggests that the child most likely: {Ans: has grasped the idea that the function of print is distinct from that of pictures.}Which of the following text features are students likely to find most useful when previewing informational texts such as library books for a research project? {Ans: table of contents}Phonemic awareness contributes most to the development of phonics skills in beginning readers by helping them: {Ans: identify in spoken language separate sounds that can be mapped to letters.}Students in a third-grade class are studying different forms of transportation that are used around the world. As part of this unit of study, they work together to create a semantic map of words associated with transportation, including words that they have recently learned (e.g., barge, rickshaw). This activity is most likely to promote students' vocabulary development by: {Ans: helping them