A good reader will show signs of progress by making correct predictions and using miscues that preserve grammar. A poor reader will consistently isolate words and ignore miscues. Two techniques for assessing a beginning reader's use of semantic and syntactic clues to predict and to verify expectations in listening and reading are miscue analysis and the cloze test. There is insufficient evidence to prove that Common Germanic was ever one, undifferentiated language and not a collection of dialects. The same is true of most, if not all, of the pre-literate languages that are the ancestors of English.
Prosody is the pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in the flow of sound.
They may also change consonant endings. Large common vocabulary not shared by other IE languages. Being in closer touch with the primary classrooms, some of you may be in a better position to answer this than your professor is. Children need to learn to work with people of all types. We do not live in a homogeneous world.