LETRS UNIT 1 EXAMINATION STUDY GUIDE
2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
◉ 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?
Answer: 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?
Answer: social interactions
◉ Which of the following is an area of inquiry to include in a
comprehensive diagnostic assessment of a potential reading
disorder?
Answer: spelling, handwriting, and single-word decoding
,◉ Which of these literacy skills have students typically mastered by
the end of third grade?
Answer: 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?
Answer: reading a story to him and having him orally retell it
◉ In what grade(s) is basic phonological awareness mainly
practiced?
Answer: K-1
◉ In what grade(s) is phoneme-grapheme correspondences mainly
practiced?
Answer: K-2
◉ In what grade(s) do most students have 300-500 sight words?
Answer: 1-2
, ◉ In what grade(s) is inflectional morphology mainly practiced?
Answer: 1-3
◉ In what grade(s) is advanced phonemic awareness mainly
practiced?
Answer: 2-3
◉ In what grade(s) is common syllables and syllabification mainly
practiced?
Answer: 2-4
◉ In what grade(s) is morphology derived from Anglo-Saxon and
Latin mainly practiced?
Answer: 3-6
◉ In what grade(s) is Greek-derived morphemes mainly practiced?
Answer: 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.
Answer: False
2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
◉ 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?
Answer: 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?
Answer: social interactions
◉ Which of the following is an area of inquiry to include in a
comprehensive diagnostic assessment of a potential reading
disorder?
Answer: spelling, handwriting, and single-word decoding
,◉ Which of these literacy skills have students typically mastered by
the end of third grade?
Answer: 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?
Answer: reading a story to him and having him orally retell it
◉ In what grade(s) is basic phonological awareness mainly
practiced?
Answer: K-1
◉ In what grade(s) is phoneme-grapheme correspondences mainly
practiced?
Answer: K-2
◉ In what grade(s) do most students have 300-500 sight words?
Answer: 1-2
, ◉ In what grade(s) is inflectional morphology mainly practiced?
Answer: 1-3
◉ In what grade(s) is advanced phonemic awareness mainly
practiced?
Answer: 2-3
◉ In what grade(s) is common syllables and syllabification mainly
practiced?
Answer: 2-4
◉ In what grade(s) is morphology derived from Anglo-Saxon and
Latin mainly practiced?
Answer: 3-6
◉ In what grade(s) is Greek-derived morphemes mainly practiced?
Answer: 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.
Answer: False
