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Contents 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 Progress, what percentage of fourth-grade students have scored “basic” or”below basic” in reading? 64% nationally, with African-
American 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? Its spelling system represents meaningful parts (morphemes)
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 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 What are some symptoms of children who have trouble with phonological processing? Select all that apply. a. slow to blend sounds in words together c. difficulty remembering sounds for letters d. trouble spelling speech sounds for words
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 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 A student with dyslexia may also be intellectually gifted. True Students who are slow at word reading and text reading, but can segment and blend sounds orally, typically have better outcomes than students with phonological processing deficits. True Dyslexic is a term often applied to a large subset of poor readers. These readers’ difficulties with accurate, fluent word recognition originate primarily with deficits in which of the following? phonological processing Which of the following can pose challenges for readers who are English Learners (ELs)? Select all that apply.
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-recognition skills. d. Test designers
have difficulty determining benchmarks that accurately predict which students will pass outcome assessments later on. For an assessment to be useful in a school setting, which three psychometric criteria are the most important? reliable, valid, efficient LETRS Unit 1 Session 8 Check For Understanding Answers Many screening measures can be considered diagnostic since they provide extremely detailed data about a student’s skills in particular literacy domains. False 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? b. a word-reading survey to show which sound-symbol correspondences the student knows and which ones still need practice
assessment would be most likely to yield valuable information about Cody? b. reading a story to him and having him orally retell it
