LETRS UNIT 1 COMPREHENSIVE
EXAMINATION TEST 2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ 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?
a. oral language comprehension and reading aloud
b. attending to context, including semantic and syntactic cues
c. matching students with interesting reading material
d. both foundational reading skills and oral language development.
Answer: d. both foundational reading skills and oral language
development
◉ 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?
a. early alphabetic
,b. later alphabetic
c. prealphabetic
d. consolidated alphabetic.
Answer: a. early alphabetic
◉ 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?
a. morphology
b. phonology
c. orthography
d. semantics.
Answer: b. phonology
◉ 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?
a. Observe whether students are able to work on several subskills at
once.
b. Verify that students have been engaged in independent reading at
home for 20 minutes every day.
c. Increase demand on students to improve their passage reading
rate.
, d. Determine if the students need remediation in word recognition,
language comprehension, or both..
Answer: d. Determine if the students need remediation in word
recognition, language comprehension, or both.
◉ 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 proportion of those
students is likely to show which characteristics?
a. primary difficulties with phonology, decoding, and word
recognition
b. primary difficulties with phonology only
c. primary difficulties with automatic word recognition only
d. primary difficulties with language comprehension only.
Answer: a. primary difficulties with phonology, decoding, and word
recognition
◉ Which of the following statements is FALSE with regard to an
effective implementation of a multi-tiered system of supports
(MTSS)?
a. It is possible for 95 percent of kindergarten students to meet
benchmark by the end of the year.
b. Reading problems can be treated as easily in third grade as in first
grade.
EXAMINATION TEST 2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ 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?
a. oral language comprehension and reading aloud
b. attending to context, including semantic and syntactic cues
c. matching students with interesting reading material
d. both foundational reading skills and oral language development.
Answer: d. both foundational reading skills and oral language
development
◉ 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?
a. early alphabetic
,b. later alphabetic
c. prealphabetic
d. consolidated alphabetic.
Answer: a. early alphabetic
◉ 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?
a. morphology
b. phonology
c. orthography
d. semantics.
Answer: b. phonology
◉ 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?
a. Observe whether students are able to work on several subskills at
once.
b. Verify that students have been engaged in independent reading at
home for 20 minutes every day.
c. Increase demand on students to improve their passage reading
rate.
, d. Determine if the students need remediation in word recognition,
language comprehension, or both..
Answer: d. Determine if the students need remediation in word
recognition, language comprehension, or both.
◉ 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 proportion of those
students is likely to show which characteristics?
a. primary difficulties with phonology, decoding, and word
recognition
b. primary difficulties with phonology only
c. primary difficulties with automatic word recognition only
d. primary difficulties with language comprehension only.
Answer: a. primary difficulties with phonology, decoding, and word
recognition
◉ Which of the following statements is FALSE with regard to an
effective implementation of a multi-tiered system of supports
(MTSS)?
a. It is possible for 95 percent of kindergarten students to meet
benchmark by the end of the year.
b. Reading problems can be treated as easily in third grade as in first
grade.
