LETRS: Unit 1 Assessment QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Many screening measures can be considered diagnostic since they provide extremely detailed
data about a students skills in particular literacy domains. - ✅✅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? -
✅✅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? - ✅✅social interactions
Which of the following is an area of inquiry to include in a comprehensive diagnostic
assessment of a potential reading disorder? - ✅✅spelling, handwriting, and single-word
decoding
Which of these literacy skills have students typically mastered by the end of third grade? -
✅✅advanced phonemic awareness, inflectional morphology, 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? - ✅✅reading a story to him and having him orally retell it
In what grade(s) is basic phonological awareness mainly practiced? - ✅✅K-1
In what grade(s) is phoneme-grapheme correspondences mainly practiced? - ✅✅K-2
In what grade(s) do most students have 300-500 sight words? - ✅✅1-2
, In what grade(s) is inflectional morphology mainly practiced? - ✅✅1-3
In what grade(s) is advanced phonemic awareness mainly practiced? - ✅✅2-3
In what grade(s) is common syllables and syllabification mainly practiced? - ✅✅2-4
In what grade(s) is morphology derived from Anglo-Saxon and Latin mainly practiced? - ✅✅3-
6
In what grade(s) is Greek-derived morphemes mainly practiced? - ✅✅5-7+
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. - ✅✅False
What is the primary purpose of progress-monitoring assessments? - ✅✅They help teachers
determine if a particular instructional approach is working to bring a student closer to a target
level of reading skill.
Which characteristics describe typical outcome assessments? - ✅✅designed to measure
passage comprehension, useful for comparing individuals to norms for a given age or grade
level
Which is a common limitation of screening measures? - ✅✅Their conservative benchmarks
result in false positives-children identified as poor readers even though they will later develop
adequate reading skills.
For an assessment to be useful in a school setting, which three psychometric criteria are the
most important? - ✅✅reliable, valid, efficient
Efficiency - ✅✅characteristic of assessments that can be given quickly at fairly low cost while
yielding valuable information
100% ACCURATE.
Many screening measures can be considered diagnostic since they provide extremely detailed
data about a students skills in particular literacy domains. - ✅✅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? -
✅✅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? - ✅✅social interactions
Which of the following is an area of inquiry to include in a comprehensive diagnostic
assessment of a potential reading disorder? - ✅✅spelling, handwriting, and single-word
decoding
Which of these literacy skills have students typically mastered by the end of third grade? -
✅✅advanced phonemic awareness, inflectional morphology, 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? - ✅✅reading a story to him and having him orally retell it
In what grade(s) is basic phonological awareness mainly practiced? - ✅✅K-1
In what grade(s) is phoneme-grapheme correspondences mainly practiced? - ✅✅K-2
In what grade(s) do most students have 300-500 sight words? - ✅✅1-2
, In what grade(s) is inflectional morphology mainly practiced? - ✅✅1-3
In what grade(s) is advanced phonemic awareness mainly practiced? - ✅✅2-3
In what grade(s) is common syllables and syllabification mainly practiced? - ✅✅2-4
In what grade(s) is morphology derived from Anglo-Saxon and Latin mainly practiced? - ✅✅3-
6
In what grade(s) is Greek-derived morphemes mainly practiced? - ✅✅5-7+
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. - ✅✅False
What is the primary purpose of progress-monitoring assessments? - ✅✅They help teachers
determine if a particular instructional approach is working to bring a student closer to a target
level of reading skill.
Which characteristics describe typical outcome assessments? - ✅✅designed to measure
passage comprehension, useful for comparing individuals to norms for a given age or grade
level
Which is a common limitation of screening measures? - ✅✅Their conservative benchmarks
result in false positives-children identified as poor readers even though they will later develop
adequate reading skills.
For an assessment to be useful in a school setting, which three psychometric criteria are the
most important? - ✅✅reliable, valid, efficient
Efficiency - ✅✅characteristic of assessments that can be given quickly at fairly low cost while
yielding valuable information
