Letrs Unit 1 Session 1 Check for
Understanding
1. According to the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress, what
percentage of fourth-grade students have scored "basic" or"below basic" in
reading? - -64% nationally, with African-American and Hispanic students
making up a disproportionate amount
-Reading comprehension is not a single construct. Rather, the ability to
understand what you read relies on multiple components. Once readers
become more skilled in word recognition, which of the following components
increase in their importance? - -background knowledge and vocabulary
-Which statement most accurately describes how the human brain has
evolved to process spoken and written language? - -Our brains have evolved
to process spoken language much more easily than alphabetic writing.
-What characteristic makes English a "deep" alphabetic orthography? - -Its
spelling system represents meaningful parts (morphemes)
-According to the Simple View of Reading model, which is more important to
reading comprehension- word recognition or language comprehension? - -
Both are equally important.
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