LETRS UNIT 1 ASSESSMENT EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

LETRS UNIT 1 ASSESSMENT EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A beginning first-grade student is able to segment and pronounce the first sound in a spoken word. He tries to guess at words by looking at the first letter only. When he writes words, he spells a few sounds phonetically, but not all the sounds. According to Ehri, this student is most likely in which phase of word-reading development? - ANSWER-early alphabetic .A child sees the word savanna and sounds it out accurately. Which of Ehri's phases is she in? - ANSWER-later alphabetic stage .A child who comes across the new word house, but reads it as horse, is in the: - ANSWER-early alphabetic stage .A child who responds "Bow-wow!" when asked, "What is the first sound in dog?" is in the: - ANSWER-pre-alphabetic stage. .A child who seeing the word inactive, and figures out that it means "not active," is in the: - ANSWER-consolidated alphabetic stage .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? - ANSWER-phonology .A research-based curriculum alone can turn schools around. - ANSWER-False .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? - ANSWER-semantics .A significant shortcoming of the Three Cueing Systems model, compared to the Four-Part Processing Model, is that it obscures the role of ______ in word recognition. - ANSWER-phonological processing .A student with dyslexia may also be intellectually gifted. - ANSWER-True .About 10-15% of poor readers can decode and read individual words quickly and well and can spell accurately-yet struggle to comprehend the meanings of passages. This profile is typical of students with which coexisting disorder? - ANSWER-Autism and autism spectrum disorders .According to the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress, what percentage of 4th grade students have scores "basic" or "below basic" in reading? - ANSWER-64%