LETRS UNIT 1 ASSESSMENT WITH CORRECT
VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADE A+ LATEST 2024
1. Many screening measures can be considered diagnostic since they
provide extremely detailed data about a students skills in particular
literacy domains.: False
2. 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?: A word-
reading survey to show which sound-symbol correspondences the student
knows and which ones still need practice.
3. Which of the following is not an area of inquiry to include in a
comprehensive diagnostic assessment of a potential reading disorder?:
social interactions 4. Which of the following is an area of inquiry to
include in a comprehensive diagnostic assessment of a potential reading
disorder?: spelling, handwriting, and single-word decoding
5. Which of these literacy skills have students typically mastered by
the end of third grade?: advanced phonemic awareness, inflectional
morphology, fluent recognition of word families (rime patterns)
6. 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 Cody?: reading a story to him and having him orally retell it
7. In what grade(s) is basic phonological awareness mainly
practiced?: K-1 8. In what grade(s) is phoneme-grapheme
correspondences mainly practiced?: K-2
9. In what grade(s) do most students have 300-500 sight words?: 1-2
10. In what grade(s) is inflectional morphology mainly practiced?: 1-3
11. In what grade(s) is advanced phonemic awareness mainly
practiced?: 2-3 12. In what grade(s) is common syllables and
syllabification mainly practiced?: 2-4
13. In what grade(s) is morphology derived from Anglo-Saxon and
Latin mainly practiced?: 3-6
14. In what grade(s) is Greek-derived morphemes mainly practiced?:
5-7+ 15. Large-scale studies have shown that about half of first-graders
1/7
, .
who struggle with reading will catch up by third grade without any
special interventions.: False
16 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.
17. Which characteristics describe typical outcome assessments?:
designed to measure passage comprehension, useful for comparing
individuals to norms for a given age or grade level
18. Which is a common limitation of screening measures?: Their
conservative benchmarks result in false positives-children identified as
poor readers even though they will later develop adequate reading
skills.
19. For an assessment to be useful in a school setting, which three
psychometric criteria are the most important?: reliable, valid,
efficient
20. Efficiency: characteristic of assessments that can be given quickly at
fairly low cost while yielding valuable information
21. Validity: Characteristic of assessments that measure what is intended,
correspond well to other known measures, and predict fairly accurately
how students will perform on accountability measures
22. Reliability: Characteristic of assessments that are likely to yield the
same result if given several times on the same day in the same context
23. Normed: Characteristic of assessments that tell where a student stands
in relation to others at his or her grade or age level.
24. Diagnostic: A test given by a speech-language pathologist to determine
whether a student meets criteria for a specific disorder.
25. Monitoring: A test given every two weeks to determine whether a new
reading program is helping at-risk students learn decoding skills
26. Outcome: A high-stakes state reading comprehension test administered
to all students at the end of third grade
27. Screening: A test of foundational skills given three times during first
grade to identify at-risk students
28. All but 2-5% of children can learn to read.: True
29. Dyslexia affects far more boys than girls.: False
30. A research-based curriculum alone can turn schools around.: False
31. School improvement requires long-term commitment.: True
32. Some very smart people have dyslexia.: True
33. Dyslexia may be inherited.: True
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VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADE A+ LATEST 2024
1. Many screening measures can be considered diagnostic since they
provide extremely detailed data about a students skills in particular
literacy domains.: False
2. 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?: A word-
reading survey to show which sound-symbol correspondences the student
knows and which ones still need practice.
3. Which of the following is not an area of inquiry to include in a
comprehensive diagnostic assessment of a potential reading disorder?:
social interactions 4. Which of the following is an area of inquiry to
include in a comprehensive diagnostic assessment of a potential reading
disorder?: spelling, handwriting, and single-word decoding
5. Which of these literacy skills have students typically mastered by
the end of third grade?: advanced phonemic awareness, inflectional
morphology, fluent recognition of word families (rime patterns)
6. 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 Cody?: reading a story to him and having him orally retell it
7. In what grade(s) is basic phonological awareness mainly
practiced?: K-1 8. In what grade(s) is phoneme-grapheme
correspondences mainly practiced?: K-2
9. In what grade(s) do most students have 300-500 sight words?: 1-2
10. In what grade(s) is inflectional morphology mainly practiced?: 1-3
11. In what grade(s) is advanced phonemic awareness mainly
practiced?: 2-3 12. In what grade(s) is common syllables and
syllabification mainly practiced?: 2-4
13. In what grade(s) is morphology derived from Anglo-Saxon and
Latin mainly practiced?: 3-6
14. In what grade(s) is Greek-derived morphemes mainly practiced?:
5-7+ 15. Large-scale studies have shown that about half of first-graders
1/7
, .
who struggle with reading will catch up by third grade without any
special interventions.: False
16 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.
17. Which characteristics describe typical outcome assessments?:
designed to measure passage comprehension, useful for comparing
individuals to norms for a given age or grade level
18. Which is a common limitation of screening measures?: Their
conservative benchmarks result in false positives-children identified as
poor readers even though they will later develop adequate reading
skills.
19. For an assessment to be useful in a school setting, which three
psychometric criteria are the most important?: reliable, valid,
efficient
20. Efficiency: characteristic of assessments that can be given quickly at
fairly low cost while yielding valuable information
21. Validity: Characteristic of assessments that measure what is intended,
correspond well to other known measures, and predict fairly accurately
how students will perform on accountability measures
22. Reliability: Characteristic of assessments that are likely to yield the
same result if given several times on the same day in the same context
23. Normed: Characteristic of assessments that tell where a student stands
in relation to others at his or her grade or age level.
24. Diagnostic: A test given by a speech-language pathologist to determine
whether a student meets criteria for a specific disorder.
25. Monitoring: A test given every two weeks to determine whether a new
reading program is helping at-risk students learn decoding skills
26. Outcome: A high-stakes state reading comprehension test administered
to all students at the end of third grade
27. Screening: A test of foundational skills given three times during first
grade to identify at-risk students
28. All but 2-5% of children can learn to read.: True
29. Dyslexia affects far more boys than girls.: False
30. A research-based curriculum alone can turn schools around.: False
31. School improvement requires long-term commitment.: True
32. Some very smart people have dyslexia.: True
33. Dyslexia may be inherited.: True
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