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LETRS Unit 1: The Challenge of Learning to Read/71 Questions and Answers
LETRS Unit 1: The Challenge of Learning to Read/71 Questions and Answers
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LETRS Unit 1 The Challenge of Learningto Read/71 Questions and Answers
According to results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress
(NAEP), which of the following is true?
a. Every state is about the same, on average.
b. Approximately 50 percent of fourth-graders are "proficient" or "advanced."
c. There is a steady increase in reading scores across all groups.
d. Gaps persist between certain subgroups of students. - -Gaps persist
between certain subgroups of students.
-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?
a. spelling and phonemic awareness
b. orthographic knowledge and background knowledge
c. cognates and syllable awareness
d. background knowledge and vocabulary - -background knowledge and
vocabulary
-Which statement most accurately describes how the human brain has
evolved to process spoken and written language?
a. Our brains have evolved to process spoken language much more easily
than alphabetic writing.
b. Our brains have evolved to process spoken and written language equally
well.
c. Our brains process spoken language and pictorial writing equally well, but
have not evolved to process alphabetic writing.
d. Our brains process spoken language extremely well, and we process
alphabetic writing surprisingly well given that it is a relatively recent
achievement. - -Our brains have evolved to process spoken language much
more easily than alphabetic writing.
-What characteristic makes English a "deep" alphabetic orthography?
a. Its spelling system is entirely phonetic.
b. Its spelling system shares many word roots with other languages.
c. Its spelling system represents meaningful parts (morphemes) as well as
sounds.
, d. Its spelling patterns have not been completely stable over time. - -Its
spelling system represents meaningful parts (morphemes) as well as sounds.
-According to the Simple View of Reading model, which is more important to
reading comprehension—word recognition or language comprehension?
a. Word recognition is much more important.
b. Language comprehension is much more important.
c. Word recognition is slightly more important.
d. Both are equally important. - -Both are equally important.
-Which statement best describes the relative importance of oral reading
fluency and verbal comprehension as factors in reading comprehension?
a. As children get older, verbal comprehension becomes more important
than oral reading fluency.
b. Oral reading fluency and verbal comprehension are equally important
throughout childhood and adolescence.
c. As children get older, verbal comprehension matters less, and oral reading
fluency becomes more important.
d. Although oral reading fluency and verbal comprehension are both
important, a child with problems in one domain can usually use the other
domain to compensate. - -As children get older, verbal comprehension
becomes more important than oral reading fluency.
-Which of these is an example of morphology?
a. We use polite phrases like excuse me and thank you when addressing
someone of higher social status.
b. We recognize that the nonsense word hufflelumps could be a real word in
English, but ngapkez could not.
c. We tend to structure paragraphs with a main idea supported by details.
d. We know the words unique, uniform, united, and universe all contain the
root uni, meaning "one." - -We know the words unique, uniform, united, and
universe all contain the root uni, meaning "one."
-Which is a characteristic of discourse in spoken language?
a. It generally uses complete, well-formed sentences.
b. It does not use paragraphs and tends to be disorganized.
c. It may use unusual or topic-specific vocabulary.
d. Its sounds are coarticulated in words. - -It does not use paragraphs and
tends to be disorganized.
-How does the language system of pragmatics help us to understand why
written language is more structured than spoken language?
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