LETRS- Unit 1 Checkpoint 1-8
According to results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which of the
following is true?
a) Every state is about the same, on average.
b) Approximately 50% of fourth graders are "proficient" or "advanced/"
c) There is a steady increase in reading scores across all groups.
d) Gaps persist between certain subgroups of students. - D
Reading comprehension is not a single construc. Rather, the ability to understand what you read relies
on multiple components. Once readers become more skilled in word recognitio, which of the following
components increase in their importance?
a) soelling and phonemic awareness
b) orthographic knowledge and background knowledge
c) cognates and syllable awareness
d) background knowledge and vocabulary - D
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 language.
b) Our brains hav eevvolved 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 relativelt recent achievement. - A
What characteristic makes English a "deep" alphabetic orthography?
a) Its spelling system is entirely phonetic.
b) Its spelling syswtem 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 copletely stable over time. - C
According tot he Simple View of Reading model, which is more important to reading comprehensison-
word recognition or language comprehension?
a) Word recognition is much more important.
b) Language composition is much more important.
c) Word recognition is slightly more important.
d) Both are equally important. - D
Which statement best dscribes the relative importance of oral reading fluency and verbal
comprehension as factors in reading comprehension?
a) As children get older, verbal comprehension becomes more important than oral reading fluency.
b) Oral reading fluency and verbal comprehension are equally important throughout childhood and
adolescence.
c) As children get older, verbal comprehension matters less, and oral reading fluency becomes more
important.
d) Althour oral reading fluency and verbal comprehension are both important, a child with problems in
one domain usually use the other domain to compensate. - B
Which of these is an example of morphology?
a) We use polite phrases like escuse me and thank you when addressing someone of higher social status.
b) We recognizze that the nonsense word hufflelumps could be a real word in English, but ngapkez could
not.
c) We tend to structure paragraphs with a main idea supported by details.
d) We know the unique, uniform, united, and unierse all contain the root uni, meaning one. - D
Which is a characteristic of discourse in spoken language?
a) It generally uses complete, well-formed sentences.
b) It does not use paragraphs and tends to be disorganized.
c) It may use unusual or topic-specific vocabulary.
d) Its sounds are coarticulated in words. - B
According to results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which of the
following is true?
a) Every state is about the same, on average.
b) Approximately 50% of fourth graders are "proficient" or "advanced/"
c) There is a steady increase in reading scores across all groups.
d) Gaps persist between certain subgroups of students. - D
Reading comprehension is not a single construc. Rather, the ability to understand what you read relies
on multiple components. Once readers become more skilled in word recognitio, which of the following
components increase in their importance?
a) soelling and phonemic awareness
b) orthographic knowledge and background knowledge
c) cognates and syllable awareness
d) background knowledge and vocabulary - D
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 language.
b) Our brains hav eevvolved 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 relativelt recent achievement. - A
What characteristic makes English a "deep" alphabetic orthography?
a) Its spelling system is entirely phonetic.
b) Its spelling syswtem 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 copletely stable over time. - C
According tot he Simple View of Reading model, which is more important to reading comprehensison-
word recognition or language comprehension?
a) Word recognition is much more important.
b) Language composition is much more important.
c) Word recognition is slightly more important.
d) Both are equally important. - D
Which statement best dscribes the relative importance of oral reading fluency and verbal
comprehension as factors in reading comprehension?
a) As children get older, verbal comprehension becomes more important than oral reading fluency.
b) Oral reading fluency and verbal comprehension are equally important throughout childhood and
adolescence.
c) As children get older, verbal comprehension matters less, and oral reading fluency becomes more
important.
d) Althour oral reading fluency and verbal comprehension are both important, a child with problems in
one domain usually use the other domain to compensate. - B
Which of these is an example of morphology?
a) We use polite phrases like escuse me and thank you when addressing someone of higher social status.
b) We recognizze that the nonsense word hufflelumps could be a real word in English, but ngapkez could
not.
c) We tend to structure paragraphs with a main idea supported by details.
d) We know the unique, uniform, united, and unierse all contain the root uni, meaning one. - D
Which is a characteristic of discourse in spoken language?
a) It generally uses complete, well-formed sentences.
b) It does not use paragraphs and tends to be disorganized.
c) It may use unusual or topic-specific vocabulary.
d) Its sounds are coarticulated in words. - B
