LETRS Unit 2 Session 1 >session 7 questions and answers/complete LETRS Unit 1 - Sessions) LETRS Unit 1 Sessions 1-8 Assessment/Quizzes

1. During reading, our eyes process each word letter by letter. o true o false 2. How many letters does the eye normally take in at each fixation point before moving on to the next fixation point? o a. five letters total o b. however many letters are in each word o c. 7–9 to the right and 3...

1. What skill is most important for a student just learning to read? o a. quick identification of sight words o b. recognition of letter names o c. understanding of prefixes and suffixes o d. accurate decoding 2. A child sees the word savanna and sounds it out accurately. Which of Ehri’s pha...

1. A student with dyslexia may also be intellectually gifted. o true o false 2. Students who are slow at word reading and text reading, but can segment and blend sounds orally, typically have better outcomes than students with phonological processing deficits. o true o false 3. Dyslexic is a...

1. Large-scale studies have shown that about half of first-graders who struggle with reading will catch up by third grade without any special interventions. o true o false 2. What is the primary purpose of progress-monitoring assessments? o a. They serve as a rough indicator of mild, moderate, ...

1. Many screening measures can be considered diagnostic since they provide extremely detailed data about a students skills in particular literacy domains. o true o false 2. If a student needs work on phonics and decoding, what kind of informal diagnostic assessment would provide the most useful...

1. Even after first grade, skills such as phoneme segmentation and blending of single-syllable words without consonant blends are good predictors of reading ability. o true o false 2. Students’ ability to acquire phonemic awareness is not dependent on which of the following factors? o a. gen...

1. Phonemic awareness instruction for young learners is most beneficial when linked with phonics instruction. o true o false 2. The inventory of phonemes used in Spanish is nearly identical to that used in English. o true o false 3. A third-grade teacher wants to determine whether any of her...