LETRS Unit 1 Assessment Exam
Question/Answer Graded A+ 2024/2025
In comparison to other alphabetic languages, what feature of the English writing system
makes English more difficult for young students to read and spell? - ✔️✔️It is
morphophonemic.
What is one important distinction between the Four-Part Processing Model for Word
Recognition and the Three-Cueing Systems model? - ✔️✔️The Three-Cueing Systems
model omits or obscures the role of phonology.
Many students at risk for reading problems enter school without exposure to the
academic language used in books or preschool experience. These students are most
likely to make progress closing the reading and language gap if their classroom
instruction emphasizes which of the following? - ✔️✔️both foundational reading skills and
oral language development
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? - ✔️✔️phonology
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? - ✔️✔️semantics
Experiments that use modern eye-movement technology to investigate what the eye
"sees" when a proficient reader scans and comprehends a text have made what
important discovery? - ✔️✔️skilled readers perceive all letters when they read.
Considering the Simple View of Reading, what would be the BEST course of action for
a third-grade teacher with concerns about several students who have not achieved
fluency? - ✔️✔️Determine if the students need remediation in word recognition, language
comprehension, or both.
What does the ability to recognize many words "by sight" during fluent reading depend
on? - ✔️✔️phonemic awareness and the ability to map graphemes to phonemes
One important goal of beginning reading instruction is the development of a sight
vocabulary that enables the student to recognize a word instantly, without having to
decode it. What types of words should make up a student's sight word vocabulary? -
✔️✔️both regular and irregular words
In any first-grade classroom in a typical school in the United States, approximately one-
third of students are likely to score in the "basic" or "below basic" range. The largest
Question/Answer Graded A+ 2024/2025
In comparison to other alphabetic languages, what feature of the English writing system
makes English more difficult for young students to read and spell? - ✔️✔️It is
morphophonemic.
What is one important distinction between the Four-Part Processing Model for Word
Recognition and the Three-Cueing Systems model? - ✔️✔️The Three-Cueing Systems
model omits or obscures the role of phonology.
Many students at risk for reading problems enter school without exposure to the
academic language used in books or preschool experience. These students are most
likely to make progress closing the reading and language gap if their classroom
instruction emphasizes which of the following? - ✔️✔️both foundational reading skills and
oral language development
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? - ✔️✔️phonology
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? - ✔️✔️semantics
Experiments that use modern eye-movement technology to investigate what the eye
"sees" when a proficient reader scans and comprehends a text have made what
important discovery? - ✔️✔️skilled readers perceive all letters when they read.
Considering the Simple View of Reading, what would be the BEST course of action for
a third-grade teacher with concerns about several students who have not achieved
fluency? - ✔️✔️Determine if the students need remediation in word recognition, language
comprehension, or both.
What does the ability to recognize many words "by sight" during fluent reading depend
on? - ✔️✔️phonemic awareness and the ability to map graphemes to phonemes
One important goal of beginning reading instruction is the development of a sight
vocabulary that enables the student to recognize a word instantly, without having to
decode it. What types of words should make up a student's sight word vocabulary? -
✔️✔️both regular and irregular words
In any first-grade classroom in a typical school in the United States, approximately one-
third of students are likely to score in the "basic" or "below basic" range. The largest
