LETRS Unit 1 Assessment
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?
Determine if the students need remediation in word recognition, language comprehension, or both.
What is one important distinction between the Four-Part Processing Model for Word Recognition and the Three-Cueing Systems model?
The Three-Cueing Systems model omits or obscures the role of phonology.
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?
skilled readers perceive all letters when they read.
In comparison to other alphabetic languages, what feature of the English writing system makes English more difficult for young students to read and spell?
It is morphophonemic.
Which of the following statements is FALSE with regard to an effective implementation of a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS)?
Reading problems can be treated as easily in third grade as in first grade.
What is the value of data provided by screening measures?
They can predict which students are at long-term risk for reading failure.
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?
both foundational reading skills and oral language development
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?
both regular and irregular words
What does the ability to recognize many words "by sight" during fluent reading depend on?
phonemic awareness and the ability to map graphemes to phonemes
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?
phonology
In any first-grade classroom in a typical school in the United States, approximately one-third of students are likely to score in the "basic" or "below basic" range. The largest proportion of those students is likely to show which characteristics?
primary difficulties with phonology, decoding, and word recognition
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?
semantics
