LETRS UNITS 1-4 POST-TEST
Questions and Answers
1. LETRS; UNITS 1-4
2. Which statement best describes the relationship between reading
comprehension and word decoding in a beginning reader's
development?
Answer Accurate, fast word recognition is necessary for development of reading fluency
and text comprehension.
3. Near the close of the day, a kindergarten teacher guides the
students in conversation about the day's activities. She writes down
what is said on large chart paper, then reads it to the class. This
activity would aid their literacy development primarily by promoting
which skill?
Answer oral language comprehension
4. After results of a winter screening, six second-graders scored in
the "some-what at risk" range. What is the next step the teacher team
should take?
Answer Analyze the screening results and gather additional diagnosis assessment data.
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, 5. How is the word snow divided?
Answer onset-rime
6. How many spoken syllables are there in frightening?
Answer 3
7. How many spoken syllables are there in cleaned?
Answer 1
8. What is the main reason that the ability to identify, segment,
blend, and manipulate individual phonemes in spoken words is
important for reading an alphabetic writing system?
Answer This skill ultimately supports the ability to read words, "by sight."
9. Students with relative weaknesses in basic phonemic awareness
are most likely to make progress if the teacher provides which
practice?
Answer asks students to look in a mirror while they describe the way that target
phonemes are formed in the mouth
10. Which student is demonstrating the most advanced level
of phonemic awareness?
Answer the student substituting a sound in a given word and saying the new word.
11. A student spells skin as "sgin." What type of phonological
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Questions and Answers
1. LETRS; UNITS 1-4
2. Which statement best describes the relationship between reading
comprehension and word decoding in a beginning reader's
development?
Answer Accurate, fast word recognition is necessary for development of reading fluency
and text comprehension.
3. Near the close of the day, a kindergarten teacher guides the
students in conversation about the day's activities. She writes down
what is said on large chart paper, then reads it to the class. This
activity would aid their literacy development primarily by promoting
which skill?
Answer oral language comprehension
4. After results of a winter screening, six second-graders scored in
the "some-what at risk" range. What is the next step the teacher team
should take?
Answer Analyze the screening results and gather additional diagnosis assessment data.
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, 5. How is the word snow divided?
Answer onset-rime
6. How many spoken syllables are there in frightening?
Answer 3
7. How many spoken syllables are there in cleaned?
Answer 1
8. What is the main reason that the ability to identify, segment,
blend, and manipulate individual phonemes in spoken words is
important for reading an alphabetic writing system?
Answer This skill ultimately supports the ability to read words, "by sight."
9. Students with relative weaknesses in basic phonemic awareness
are most likely to make progress if the teacher provides which
practice?
Answer asks students to look in a mirror while they describe the way that target
phonemes are formed in the mouth
10. Which student is demonstrating the most advanced level
of phonemic awareness?
Answer the student substituting a sound in a given word and saying the new word.
11. A student spells skin as "sgin." What type of phonological
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