LETRS Unit 1 Assessment

In comparison to other alphabetic languages, what feature of the English writing system makes English more difficult for young students to read and spell? A. It is phonetically transparent. B. It is syllabic. C. It is morphophonemic. D. It is a shallow orthography. - CORRECT ANSWERSC. It is morphophonemic. What is one important distinction between the Four-Part Processing Model for Word Recognition and the Three Cueing Systems model? A. The Three Cueing Systems model emphasizes the role of phonology. B. The Three Cueing Systems model omits or obscures the role of phonology. C. The Three Cueing Systems model omits semantic processing. D. The Four-Part Processing Model emphasizes visual processes. - CORRECT ANSWERSB. 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 used in books or preschool experience. These students are most likely to make progress closing the reading and language gap if their classroom instruction emphasizes which of the following? A. oral language comprehension and reading aloud B. attending to context, including semantic and syntactic cues C. matching students with interesting reading material D. both foundational reading skills and oral language development - CORRECT ANSWERSD. both foundational reading skills and oral language development A kindergarten teacher is having students listen to three spoken words and identify the two words that end with the same sound. The teacher is focusing on which language system? A. Semantics B. Orthography C. Morphology D. Phonology - CORRECT ANSWERSD. Phonology A second-grade teacher, in preparation for reading a new text about honeybees, asks the students to brainstorm all the meanings they know for the word comb. The teacher is primarily focusing on which language system? A. Semantics B. Orthography C. Morphology D. Phonology - CORRECT ANSWERSA. Semantics Experiments that use modern eye-movement technology to investigate what the eye "sees" when a proficient reader scans and comprehends a text have made what important discovery? A. Skilled readers perceive all letters when they read. B. Good readers skim a text, perceiving just a few letters. C. Good readers are dependent on context to identify words. D. The perceptual span of a good reader is triple that of a poor reader. - CORRECT ANSWERSA. Skilled readers perceive all letters when they read. Considering the Simple View of Reading, what would be the BEST course of action for a third-grade teacher with concerns about several students who have not achieved fluency? A. Verify that students have been engaged in independent reading at home for 20 minutes every day. B. Determine if the students need remediation in word recognition, language comprehension, or both. C. Observe whether students are able to work on several subskills at once. D. Increase demand on students to improve their passage reading rate. - CORRECT ANSWERSB. Determine if the students need remediation in word recognition, language comprehension, or both. A beginning first-grade student is able to segment and pronounce the first sound in a spoken word. He tries to guess at words by looking at the first letter only. When he writes words, he spells a few sounds phonetically, but not all the sounds. According to Ehri, this student is most likely in which phase of word-reading development? A. pre alphabetic B. early alphabetic C. later alphabetic D. consolidated alphabetic - CORRECT ANSWERSB. early alphabetic One important goal of beginning reading instruction is the development of a sight vocabulary that enables the student to recognize a word instantly, without having to decode it. What types of words should make up a student's sight word vocabulary?