LETRS Phonics class set unit 1 - 4 Complete with Answers

1. What characteristic makes English a "deep" alphabetic orthography? 2. Which statement most accurately de- scribes how the human brain has evolved to process spoken and written language? 3. Which skills are least correlated with reading comprehension in children? 4. According to the Simple View of Read- ing model, which is more important to reading comprehension—word recog- nition or language comprehension? 5. According to the 2015 National Assess- ment of Educational Progress, what percentage of fourth-grade students have scored "basic" or "below basic" in reading? 6. Which of these is an example of mor- phology? 7. How does the language system of prag- matics help us to understand why writ- ten language is more structured than spoken language? 8. Which statement best describes the rel- ative importance of oral reading fluency and verbal comprehension as factors in reading comprehension? Its spelling system represents meaningful parts (morphemes) as well as sounds. Our brains have evolved to process spoken language much more easily than alphabetic writ- ing. visual-motor skills and visu- al-spatial reasoning Both are equally important. 64% nationally, with African-American and Hispanic students making up a dispropor- tionate amount We know the words unique, uni- form, united, and universe all contain the root uni, meaning "one." Social context and nonverbal gestures help the listener under- stand spoken language, so there is less need for it to be highly structured. As children get older, verbal com- prehension becomes more im- portant than oral reading fluency. 9. What adds to the challenge of becom- ing literate? Select all that apply. 10. Which is a characteristic of discourse in spoken language? 11. English vowels are easier for students to pronounce and write than conso- nants. 12. What makes r-controlled vowel sounds so confusing for students? 13. Which of the following sounds is con- sidered a front vowel? 14. Which of the following vowels require that the mouth shift position during pro- duction of the sound? Select all that apply. All meaning resides in the written words alone; there is no addition- al physical context or gestures, facial expressions, etc., to sup- port meaning. -AND- Reading and writing re- quire learning new forms of lan- guage, such as changes to sen- tence structure, discourse, and presentation of vocabulary and semantics. It does not use paragraphs and tends to be disorganized. False The r takes over the preceding vowel sound. / / /oi/ -AND- /ou/ 15. Spanish has 22 phonemes represented True by 27 symbols, compared to English's 44 phonemes and 26 symbols. 16. The variations common in African American English are predictable and governed by rules. 17. Which of the following misspellings likely results from confusion about True spelling skip as "sgip" unaspirated or deaspirated stop conso- nants? 18. In which group of words does a tongue flap create significant differences be- tween American and British pronuncia- tions? 19. Students in Ehri's prealphabetic phase need instruction in basic oral language skills before manipulating phonemes. 20. Sound chaining should begin with sub- stituting the middle sounds and end sounds in a word, as these are most difficult. 21. Which activities work with students at the early phonological awareness lev- el? Select all that apply. 22. A colleague is going to start beginning sound chaining activities with students at the basic phonemic awareness lev- el, using colored blocks to represent sounds. What is the most important guideline to follow? 23. Which of the following principles are important for teaching phonological skills in particular? Select all that apply. cattle, city, metal True false having students identify rhyming words in texts you read aloud -AND- having students clap or tap to count the syllables in a word you say -AND- saying a two-syllable word, then asking students to delete one syllable and say the word that results