LETRS Unit 1 Session 8 Check for Understanding Study Research.

Many screening measures can be considered diagnostic since they provide extremely detailed data about a students skills in particular literacy domains. - correct answer False 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? - correct answer b. a word-reading survey to show which sound-symbol correspondences the student knows and which ones still need practice Which of the following is not an area of inquiry to include in a comprehensive diagnostic assessment of a potential reading disorder? - correct answer d. social interactions Which of these literacy skills have students typically mastered by the end of third grade? Select all that apply. - correct answer a. advanced phonemic awareness c. inflectional morphology d. fluent recognition of word families (rime patterns) 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 stories aloud, he reads fairly accurately but in an expressionless monotone. Which assessment would be most likely to yield valuable information about Cody? - correct answer b. reading a story to him and having him orally retell it