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LETRS Units 5 - 8 Pre & Post Test/100% ANSWERED

In comparison to other alphabetic languages, what feature of the English writing system makes English more difficult for young students to read and spell? - ANSWER-It is morphophonemic. What is one important distinction between the Four-Part Processing Model for Word Recognition and the Three-Cueing Systems model? - ANSWER-The Three-Cueing Systems model omits or obscures the role of phonology. Many students at risk for reading problems enter school without exposure to the academic language...

T/F: Some very smart people have dyslexia - ANSWER-True T/F: Dyslexia may be inherited - ANSWER-True T/F: Children who can't read by age 9 never will - ANSWER-False T/F: Around 10-15 of the population have dyslexia - ANSWER-True T/F: Dyslexia is seeing things backward - ANSWER-False T/F: You can't identify dyslexic children before they enter school - ANSWER-False T/F: School improvement requires long-term commitment - ANSWER-True T/F: a research-based curriculum alone can ...

How should the balance of instructional time spent on foundational reading skills and language comprehension between first grade and third grade for typical learners? - ANSWER-The time spent on foundational reading skills should skift from about 40% in first grade to 20% in third grade. What criterion would be most relevant for selecting high-quality texts for reading aloud or for meiated text reading? - ANSWER-The text has layers of meaning that can be explored through several readings. A...

Which of the following statements best describes an effective way to prepare students to listen to or read a text? - ANSWER-Establish the purpose for reading the text and impart background knowledge. Which of the following describes a product of comprehension, rather than a process? - ANSWER-verbalizing a summary or retelling of the text after reading Which of these statements is not true of students with specific comprehension difficulties? - ANSWER-They rely less on context to guess on t...

Based on the grapheme representing /sh/, which word is probably from French? - ANSWER-machine Which of the following words is most probably from the Anglo-Saxon layer of English? - ANSWER-playground Because of arbitrary and historical conventions governing English orthography, some letters can never be used to end a word. Which word can be explained by that principle? - ANSWER-have In phoneme-grapheme mapping, students first segment and mark boxes for the phonemes. Then, they map the gr...

Which term relates to a students ability to use word meanings in both speaking and writing? - ANSWER-expressive vocabulary In teaching the antonyms and synonyms of a word such as generosity, a teacher would be emphasizing which aspect of language? - ANSWER-semantics Once students have learned to decode printed words, which strand of the Reading Rope model (Scarborough, 2001) is the best single predictor of reading comprehension? - ANSWER-vocabulary Which conclusion was documented by the...

b. The Three Cueing Systems model omits or obscures the role of phonology. - ANSWER-What is one important distinction between the Four-Part Processing Model for Word Recognition and the Three Cueing Systems model? a. The Four-Part Processing Model emphasizes visual processes. b. The Three Cueing Systems model omits or obscures the role of phonology. c. The Three Cueing Systems model emphasizes the role of phonology. d. The Three Cueing Systems model omits semantic processing. d. both ...

phonics - ANSWER-the study of the relationships between letters and the sounds they represent phonemic awareness - ANSWER-the conscious awareness of the individual speech sounds (consonants and vowels) in spoken syllables and the ability to consciously manipulate those sounds orthography - ANSWER-a writing system for representing language; how words are spelled, spaced, and punctuated morphophonemic - ANSWER-a deep alphabetic writing system organized by both "sound-symbol" corresponde...

Which of the following is not one of the strands in Scarborough's Reading Rope? - ANSWER-Guided reading How can code-emphasis or phonics-emphasis instruction be used most effectively? - ANSWER-when organized around a logical progression of pattern words that have been taught 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 di...