Letrs Unit 1 Session 1 Check for Understanding
1. 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
- According to the Simple View of Reading model, which is more
important to reading comprehension- word recognition or language
comprehension? - -Both are equally important.
- 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
- What characteristic makes English a "deep" alphabetic orthography? -
-Its spelling system represents meaningful parts (morphemes)
- 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.
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1. 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
- According to the Simple View of Reading model, which is more
important to reading comprehension- word recognition or language
comprehension? - -Both are equally important.
- 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
- What characteristic makes English a "deep" alphabetic orthography? -
-Its spelling system represents meaningful parts (morphemes)
- 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.
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