LETRS LETRS Unit 1: Sessions 1-8 With Complete Solutions
LETRS unit 1 session 1
According to the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress, what percentage of fourth-grade students have scored "basic" or "below basic" in reading?
a. 33% of students nationally, equally split among white, African-American, and Hispanic students
b. 23% nationally, with African-American and Hispanic students making up a disproportionate amount
c. 50% nationally, with white students making up a disproportionate amount
d. 64% nationally, with African-American and Hispanic students making up a disproportionate amount - d. 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?
a. spelling and phonemic awareness
b. orthographic knowledge and background knowledge
c. cognates and syllable awareness
d. background knowledge and vocabulary - d. background knowledge and vocabulary
Which statement most accurately describes how the human brain has evolved to process spoken and written language?
a. Our brains have evolved to process spoken language much more easily than alphabetic writing.
b. Our brains have evolved to process spoken and written language equally well.
c. Our brains process spoken language and pictorial writing equally well, but have not evolved to process alphabetic writing.
d. Our brains process spoken language extremely well, and we process alphabetic writing surprisingly well given that it is a relatively recent achievement. - a. Our brains have evolved to process spoken language much
more easily than alphabetic writing.
What characteristic makes English a "deep" alphabetic orthography?
a. Its spelling system is entirely phonetic.
b. Its spelling system shares many word roots with other languages.
c. Its spelling system represents meaningful parts (morphemes) as well as sounds. d. Its spelling patterns have not been completely stable over time. - c. Its spelling system represents meaningful parts (morphemes) as well as sounds.
According to the Simple View of Reading model, which is more important to reading comprehension—word recognition or language comprehension?
a. Word recognition is much more important.
b. Language comprehension is much more important.
c. Word recognition is slightly more important.
d. Both are equally important. - d. Both are equally important.
LETRS Unit 1 Session 1
phonics Correct Ans ➡ the study of the relationships between letters and the sounds they represent; also used as a descriptor for code-based instruction
phonemic awareness Correct Ans ➡ the conscious awareness of the individual speech sounds (consonants and vowels) in spoken syllables and the ability to consciously manipulate those sounds.
Five Essential Components of Reading Instruction Correct Ans ➡ Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
pictographs Correct Ans ➡ primitive writing system that directly represented or made pictures of the intended meaning (hieroglyphics)
logographs Correct Ans ➡ writing system where symbols were used to represent meanings rather than sound (Chinese radicals and Mayan gylphs)
syllabic symbols Correct Ans ➡ writing system that directly represented whole syllables (cherokee)
alphabetic writing Correct Ans ➡ a system in which graphic signs represent individual consonants and vowels, or phenomes
syllable Correct Ans ➡ a unit of pronunciation that is organized around a vowel; it may or may not have a consonant after the vowel
morphemes Correct Ans ➡ The smallest units of meaning in a language; meaningful parts of words; it may be a word or part of a word; it may be a single sound (plural /s/); one syllable (suffix -ful) or multiple syllables (prefix inter-)
orthography Correct Ans ➡ A writing system for representing language.
LETRS unit 1 session 1
According to the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress, what percentage of fourth-grade students have scored "basic" or "below basic" in reading?
a. 33% of students nationally, equally split among white, African-American, and Hispanic students
b. 23% nationally, with African-American and Hispanic students making up a disproportionate amount
c. 50% nationally, with white students making up a disproportionate amount
d. 64% nationally, with African-American and Hispanic students making up a disproportionate amount - d. 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?
a. spelling and phonemic awareness
b. orthographic knowledge and background knowledge
c. cognates and syllable awareness
d. background knowledge and vocabulary - d. background knowledge and vocabulary
Which statement most accurately describes how the human brain has evolved to process spoken and written language?
a. Our brains have evolved to process spoken language much more easily than alphabetic writing.
b. Our brains have evolved to process spoken and written language equally well.
c. Our brains process spoken language and pictorial writing equally well, but have not evolved to process alphabetic writing.
d. Our brains process spoken language extremely well, and we process alphabetic writing surprisingly well given that it is a relatively recent achievement. - a. Our brains have evolved to process spoken language much
more easily than alphabetic writing.
What characteristic makes English a "deep" alphabetic orthography?
a. Its spelling system is entirely phonetic.
b. Its spelling system shares many word roots with other languages.
c. Its spelling system represents meaningful parts (morphemes) as well as sounds. d. Its spelling patterns have not been completely stable over time. - c. Its spelling system represents meaningful parts (morphemes) as well as sounds.
According to the Simple View of Reading model, which is more important to reading comprehension—word recognition or language comprehension?
a. Word recognition is much more important.
b. Language comprehension is much more important.
c. Word recognition is slightly more important.
d. Both are equally important. - d. Both are equally important.
LETRS Unit 1 Session 1
phonics Correct Ans ➡ the study of the relationships between letters and the sounds they represent; also used as a descriptor for code-based instruction
phonemic awareness Correct Ans ➡ the conscious awareness of the individual speech sounds (consonants and vowels) in spoken syllables and the ability to consciously manipulate those sounds.
Five Essential Components of Reading Instruction Correct Ans ➡ Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
pictographs Correct Ans ➡ primitive writing system that directly represented or made pictures of the intended meaning (hieroglyphics)
logographs Correct Ans ➡ writing system where symbols were used to represent meanings rather than sound (Chinese radicals and Mayan gylphs)
syllabic symbols Correct Ans ➡ writing system that directly represented whole syllables (cherokee)
alphabetic writing Correct Ans ➡ a system in which graphic signs represent individual consonants and vowels, or phenomes
syllable Correct Ans ➡ a unit of pronunciation that is organized around a vowel; it may or may not have a consonant after the vowel
morphemes Correct Ans ➡ The smallest units of meaning in a language; meaningful parts of words; it may be a word or part of a word; it may be a single sound (plural /s/); one syllable (suffix -ful) or multiple syllables (prefix inter-)
orthography Correct Ans ➡ A writing system for representing language.
