LETRS Unit 1 Assessment Questions with CORRECT
Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1:
Many screening measures can be considered diagnostic since they provide extremely detailed
data about a students skills in particular literacy domains.
Answer:
False
Question 2:
If a student needs work on phonics and decoding, what kind of informal diagnostic
assessment would provide the most useful information on how to help this student with these
skills?
Answer:
A word-reading survey to show which sound-symbol correspondences the student knows and
which ones still need practice.
Question 3:
Which of the following is not an area of inquiry to include in a comprehensive diagnostic
assessment of a potential reading disorder?
Answer:
social interactions
Question 4:
Which of the following is an area of inquiry to include in a comprehensive diagnostic
assessment of a potential reading disorder?
Answer:
spelling, handwriting, and single-word decoding
,Question 5:
Which of these literacy skills have students typically mastered by the end of third grade?
Answer:
advanced phonemic awareness, inflectional morphology, fluent recognition of word families
(rime patterns)
Question 6:
but in an expressionless monotone. Which assessment would be most likely to yield valuable
information about Cody? Cody is in first grade. He almost never raises his hand to participate
in class discussions. When called on, he replies very briefly. He tends to use vague words like
stuff and rarely uses full sentences. During decoding exercises, he reads words accurately
and easily recognizes common patterns; he is a good speller. When he reads
Answer:
reading a story to him and having him orally retell it
Question 7:
In what grade(s) is basic phonological awareness mainly practiced?
Answer:
K-1
Question 8:
In what grade(s) is phoneme-grapheme correspondences mainly practiced?
Answer:
K-2
Question 9:
In what grade(s) do most students have 300-500 sight words?
Answer:
1-2
, Question 10:
In what grade(s) is inflectional morphology mainly practiced?
Answer:
1-3
Question 11:
In what grade(s) is advanced phonemic awareness mainly practiced?
Answer:
2-3
Question 12:
In what grade(s) is common syllables and syllabification mainly practiced?
Answer:
2-4
Question 13:
In what grade(s) is morphology derived from Anglo-Saxon and Latin mainly practiced?
Answer:
3-6
Question 14:
In what grade(s) is Greek-derived morphemes mainly practiced?
Answer:
5-7+
Question 15:
Large-scale studies have shown that about half of first-graders who struggle with reading will
catch up by third grade without any special interventions.
Answer:
False
Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1:
Many screening measures can be considered diagnostic since they provide extremely detailed
data about a students skills in particular literacy domains.
Answer:
False
Question 2:
If a student needs work on phonics and decoding, what kind of informal diagnostic
assessment would provide the most useful information on how to help this student with these
skills?
Answer:
A word-reading survey to show which sound-symbol correspondences the student knows and
which ones still need practice.
Question 3:
Which of the following is not an area of inquiry to include in a comprehensive diagnostic
assessment of a potential reading disorder?
Answer:
social interactions
Question 4:
Which of the following is an area of inquiry to include in a comprehensive diagnostic
assessment of a potential reading disorder?
Answer:
spelling, handwriting, and single-word decoding
,Question 5:
Which of these literacy skills have students typically mastered by the end of third grade?
Answer:
advanced phonemic awareness, inflectional morphology, fluent recognition of word families
(rime patterns)
Question 6:
but in an expressionless monotone. Which assessment would be most likely to yield valuable
information about Cody? Cody is in first grade. He almost never raises his hand to participate
in class discussions. When called on, he replies very briefly. He tends to use vague words like
stuff and rarely uses full sentences. During decoding exercises, he reads words accurately
and easily recognizes common patterns; he is a good speller. When he reads
Answer:
reading a story to him and having him orally retell it
Question 7:
In what grade(s) is basic phonological awareness mainly practiced?
Answer:
K-1
Question 8:
In what grade(s) is phoneme-grapheme correspondences mainly practiced?
Answer:
K-2
Question 9:
In what grade(s) do most students have 300-500 sight words?
Answer:
1-2
, Question 10:
In what grade(s) is inflectional morphology mainly practiced?
Answer:
1-3
Question 11:
In what grade(s) is advanced phonemic awareness mainly practiced?
Answer:
2-3
Question 12:
In what grade(s) is common syllables and syllabification mainly practiced?
Answer:
2-4
Question 13:
In what grade(s) is morphology derived from Anglo-Saxon and Latin mainly practiced?
Answer:
3-6
Question 14:
In what grade(s) is Greek-derived morphemes mainly practiced?
Answer:
5-7+
Question 15:
Large-scale studies have shown that about half of first-graders who struggle with reading will
catch up by third grade without any special interventions.
Answer:
False
