LETRS Unit 2 Assessment

LETRS Unit 2 Assessment Exam with Correct Solutions Graded A+ How is the word play divided in this example? - onset-rime How many spoken syllables are there in buttered? - 2 How many spoken syllables are there in possible? - 3 What ability would students have who had attained advanced levels of phonemic awareness? - They can read most grade-level words by sight. Which teaching strategy would be most helpful for students who confuse the sounds /f/ and /th/ in their own speech? - Have the student look in a mirror while describing and producing each sound. Which student is demonstrating the most advanced level of phonemic awareness? - a student who reverses the order of sounds in perch to make chirp A student writes the word went as 'wet.' What aspect of phonology is associated with this common spelling error? - nasalization of a vowel before a nasal consonant Phonological awareness tasks that emphasize segmentation and blending of two- or three- phoneme words align with which level of phonological awareness according to Kilpatrick? - basic phonemic awareness Which set of words would be appropriate for practicing four-phoneme blending? - quit, sling, roast If a student obtains a low score on a test of rapid automatic naming (RAN), what is the teachers best course of action? - Continue to develop phonological awareness at the appropriate levels. Which phonological awareness activity would be most appropriate for early kindergarten students in Ehris prealphabetic phase? - recognizing the rhyming words in "Hickory Dickory Dock" Which of the following is most likely a symptom of a problem with phonological working memory? - forgetting the words when asked to repeat a sentence A second-grade student is given a test that measures simple phoneme segmentation and blending and does well. However, when given the PAST, he cant perform advanced phonemic awareness tasks. What would be the best skills for him to practice based on these results? - sound deletion, substitution, and reversal If a student in first grade (or later) often confuses words like bed and bad, pest and past, and pen and pan during spelling, what skill practice would be most appropriate? - discriminating phonemes /ě/ and /ă/ As a general guideline, the optimal amount of time to spend on teaching phonemic awareness to normally progressing kindergarten or first-grade students is: - 5-10 minutes daily for about 20 weeks.