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LETRS UNIT 1 SESSION 1-8 CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING
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1 LETRS Unit 1 Session 1 Check For Understanding Answers 2 LETRS Unit 1 Session 2 Check For Understanding Answers 3 LETRS Unit 1 Session 3 Check For Understanding Answers 4 LETRS Unit 1 Session 4 Check For Understanding Answers 5 LETRS Unit 1 Session 5 Check For Understanding Answers 6 LETRS Unit 1 Session 6 Check For Understanding Answers 7 LETRS Unit 1 Session 7 Check For Understanding Answers 8 LETRS Unit 1 Session 8 Check For Understanding Answers LETRS Unit 1 Session 1 Check For Understanding Answers
- According to the 2015 National Assessment of Educational
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Progress, what percentage of fourth-grade students have scored “basic” or”below basic” in reading? 64% nationally, with AfricanAmerican and Hispanic students making up a disproportionate amount Reading comprehension is not a single construct. Rather, the ability to understand what you read relies on multiple components. Once readers become more skilled in word recognition, which of the following components increase in their importance? background knowledge and vocabulary Which statement most accurately describes how the human brain has evolved to process spoken and written language? Our brains have evolved to process spoken language much more easily than alphabetic writing. What characteristic makes English a “deep” alphabetic orthography?
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Which is a characteristic of discourse in spoken language? It does not use paragraphs and tends to be disorganized. How does the language system of pragmatics help us to understand why written language is more structured than spoken language? Social context and nonverbal gestures help the listener understand spoken language, so there is less need for it to be highly structured. What adds to the challenge of becoming literate? Select all that apply. a. All meaning resides in the written words alone; there is no additional physical context or gestures, facial expressions, etc., to support meaning. b. Reading and writing require learning new forms of language, such as changes to sentence structure, discourse, and presentation of vocabulary and semantics. LETRS Unit 1 Session 3 Check For Understanding Answers
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During reading, our eyes process each word letter by letter. True How many letters does the eye normally take in at each fixation point before moving on to the next fixation point? 7 - 9 to the right and 3-4 to the left The Four-Part Processing Model helps us understand _________________. how multiple parts of the brain must work together in order for word recognition to occur. The area known as the visual word form area or “brain’s letterbox” is located in the _____________ lobe and is essential to the _____________ processor. occipital; orthographic
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Which of these does the language-comprehension component of the Reading Rope emphasize? the importance of vocabulary development and of understanding language structures The word-recognition component of the Reading Rope includes which subskills? Select all that apply. Decoding, phonological awareness, sight recognition. Good readers do not require a large storehouse of sight words in their memory if they have highly developed phonographic skills. False LETRS Unit 1 Session 5 Check For Understanding Answers What skill is most important for a student just learning to read? accurate decoding
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A child sees the word savanna and sounds it out accurately. Which of Ehri’s phases is she in? later alphabetic stage A child who responds, “Bow-wow!” when asked, “What is the first sound in dog?” is in the: prealphabetic stage. A child who sees the word inactive, and figures out that it means “not active,” is in the: consolidated alphabetic stage. A child who comes across the new word house, but reads it as horse, is in the: early alphabetic stage. LETRS Unit 1 Session 6 Check For Understanding Answers
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with their culture and background knowledge. When they read, ELs must perform two tasks at once: deciphering words and translating content between English and their first language. About 10-15 percent of poor readers can decode and read individual words quickly and well and can spell accurately—yet struggle to comprehend the meanings of passages. This profile is typical of students with which coexisting disorder? autism and autism spectrum disorders LETRS Unit 1 Session 7 Check For Understanding Answers T/F: 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
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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? Select all that apply. a. designed to measure passage comprehension b. frequently, repeatedly administered (three or more times per year) c. useful for comparing individuals to norms for a given age or grade level d. useful for identifying students who need early, intensive intervention Which is a common limitation of screening measures? a. They are expensive and time-consuming to administer. b. The imprecision of the measures results in false positives—children identified as lacking sufficient reading skills even though they will later develop adequate reading skills. c. There are few effective means by which to measure children’s word-
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Which of the following is not an area of inquiry to include in a comprehensive diagnostic assessment of a potential reading disorder? d. social interactions Which of these literacy skills have students typically mastered by the end of third grade? Select all that apply. a. advanced phonemic awareness c. inflectional morphology d. 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
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Cody? b. reading a story to him and having him orally retell it
