LETRS UNIT 1 LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE
APPLICATION SYNTAX SEMANTICS
PEDAGOGY RESEARCH REVIEW
●● Complete this sentence. To develop a student's sight word
vocabulary, teachers should teach _____ and ______words.
Answer: regular; irregular
●● According to research, about 34 percent of all fourth-graders are
proficient or advanced in their reading, but more than a third are
described as "below basic." Which instructional components could be
missing for this group of developing readers? Select all that apply.
Answer: decoding, word recognition, phonology
●● Which statement about eye-movement research in regard to reading
is false?
Answer: Researchers using modern eye-movement technology have
found that when we read we skip over words and read print selectively.
●● A third-grade teacher is instructing students on how to expand their
ideas into a paragraph to communicate their ideas with their readers. The
teacher is primarily focusing on which language system?
Answer: discourse
, ●● Complete this sentence. The ability to recognize many words "by
sight" during fluent reading depends on ______.
Answer: phoneme awareness and the ability to map graphemes to
phonemes
●● Complete this sentence. The Three-Cueing Systems model focuses
on all of the components of the Four-Part Processing Model except the
______.
Answer: phonology processing system
●● Which statement about oral language development is true?
Answer: Foundational reading skills and oral language development are
both important when it comes to learning how to read.
●● What is the value of data provided by screening measures?
Answer: They can predict which students are at long-term risk for
reading failure.
●● 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.
APPLICATION SYNTAX SEMANTICS
PEDAGOGY RESEARCH REVIEW
●● Complete this sentence. To develop a student's sight word
vocabulary, teachers should teach _____ and ______words.
Answer: regular; irregular
●● According to research, about 34 percent of all fourth-graders are
proficient or advanced in their reading, but more than a third are
described as "below basic." Which instructional components could be
missing for this group of developing readers? Select all that apply.
Answer: decoding, word recognition, phonology
●● Which statement about eye-movement research in regard to reading
is false?
Answer: Researchers using modern eye-movement technology have
found that when we read we skip over words and read print selectively.
●● A third-grade teacher is instructing students on how to expand their
ideas into a paragraph to communicate their ideas with their readers. The
teacher is primarily focusing on which language system?
Answer: discourse
, ●● Complete this sentence. The ability to recognize many words "by
sight" during fluent reading depends on ______.
Answer: phoneme awareness and the ability to map graphemes to
phonemes
●● Complete this sentence. The Three-Cueing Systems model focuses
on all of the components of the Four-Part Processing Model except the
______.
Answer: phonology processing system
●● Which statement about oral language development is true?
Answer: Foundational reading skills and oral language development are
both important when it comes to learning how to read.
●● What is the value of data provided by screening measures?
Answer: They can predict which students are at long-term risk for
reading failure.
●● 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.
