LETRS Unit 3 Exam Questions and Correct Answers
Which is the best definition of the term sight words? - Answer-any words a reader can recognize instantly and read
How often should teachers introduce students to new irregular, high-frequency words? - Answer-three to five times per week
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Which is the best definition of the term sight words? - Answer-any words a reader can
recognize instantly and read
How often should teachers introduce students to new irregular, high-frequency words? -
Answer-three to five times per week
Which text type includes phrases repeated frequently with only one or two words that
change? - Answer-Predictable
Which text type includes words often seen in text, regardless of what patterns have
been taught? - Answer-high-frequency
Which text type mainly includes words that follow patterns previously taught in phonics
lessons? - Answer-Decodable
Which text type does NOT support weak readers' skills even though students are often
assigned it based on tests? - Answer-Leveled
Asking questions during reading is not recommended, because this is can distract
students. - Answer-False
Leveled texts are ranked on objective readability criteria, gradually becoming more
difficult as students progress through the levels. - Answer-False
If a teacher follows a systematic process for transferring phonics skills to text, it's
reasonable to expect students to read a decodable passage independently after a week
of instruction. - Answer-True
A school library has available a series of lavishly illustrated predictable texts written in
verse. What are the most appropriate ways to use these in the classroom? - Answer-
Use them as teacher read-alouds to enhance oral language and comprehension skills.
Students are reading a decodable text that uses only pattern words or high-frequency
words students have been taught. What level of reading accuracy is reasonable to
expect? - Answer-95%
Over the course of a week of phonics instruction, which step in the Transfer to Text
Process is the first that can be phased out? - Answer-Practice reading skills words in
isolation before reading them in a passage.
, Which of the following is NOT one of the strands in Scarborough's Reading Rope? -
Answer-guided reading
Which word group might a teacher include in a lesson focused on identification of
consonant blends? - Answer-blink, frog, twist
Which word group might a teacher include in a lesson focused on reviewing consonant
digraphs? - Answer-Thorn, show, chase
In a complete phonics lesson of 30-40 minutes, which activity would typically NOT be
included? - Answer-partner reading of a trade book of high interest to the students
Of all the phonic correspondences represented in these words, which pattern is likely to
be learned after the others? - Answer-gale
About what percent of English words can be spelled and read accurately using sound-
symbol correspondences alone, without knowing the syllable patterns, meaningful parts,
or word origin? - Answer-50%
How many graphemes are in the word weight? - Answer-3
Which of the following tasks would best provide practice for learning letter formation in
kindergarten? - Answer-tracing a model following numbered arrows on lined paper.
What is the best key word to put on a sound-symbol card to teach short e? - Answer-
echo
A good phonics lesson should include opportunities for students to directly apply the
phoneme-grapheme relationships that have been explicitly taught. Which text type
would best provide the practice needed? - Answer-decodable text
Which of the following is the best example of a well-designed word list for a word
chaining activity? - Answer-rat, chat, chap, chip, rip, rap
Teachers who take a code-emphasis approach to instruction generally do not discuss
the meanings of words being taught. - Answer-False
The ability to decode a new, previously unknown printed word, in or out of context,
depends on - Answer-knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences and the
ability to blend phonemes and graphemes quickly.
The term phonics may be used to refer to - Answer-the system of phoneme-grapheme
correspondences that are the basis for an alphabetic orthography, an essential
component of effective reading instruction and a strategy for decoding new words and
storing them in orthographic memory.
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