APPROVED
AND REVISED IN 2024-2025 DECEMBER
d. 64% nationally, with African-American and Hispanic students making up a
disproportionate amount-Correct - ANSWER -> 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
c. Its spelling system represents meaningful parts (morphemes) as well as sounds.-
Correct - ANSWER -> 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.
d. visual-motor skills and visual-spatial reasoning-Correct - ANSWER -> Which skills are
least correlated with reading comprehension in children?
a. spelling and writing
b. oral language skills
c. word-reading accuracy and fluency
d. visual-motor skills and visual-spatial reasoning
d. Both are equally important.-Correct - ANSWER -> 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.
a. Our brains have evolved to process spoken language much more easily than
,alphabetic writing.-Correct - ANSWER -> 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.
LETRS Unit 1 - Session 1
Phonics - Correct - ANSWER -> relationship between letters and sounds. Code based
instruction.
Phonemic Awareness - Correct - ANSWER -> awareness of individual speech sounds
(consonants and vowels) in spoken syllables and the ability to consciously manipulate
those sounds.
Alphabetic Writing is less than ____________ years old. - Correct - ANSWER -> 5,000
90% of all spoken languages have no - Correct - ANSWER -> written form, let alone an
alphabet that represents the separate sounds of speech.
Syllable - Correct - ANSWER -> the unit of pronunciation that is organized around a
vowel; it may or may not have a consonant after the vowel.
Egyptians invented the first alphabet in - Correct - ANSWER -> 2,000 BCE
Phoenician alphabet was developed in and was the granfather of our
alphabet 19 of 26 letters can be traced. - Correct - ANSWER -> 1,000 BCE
Modern American English spelling was settled in 1828 with - Correct - ANSWER ->
Webster's Dictionary
Orthograpy - Correct - ANSWER -> a writing system for representing language
Morphonphonemic - Correct - ANSWER -> alphabetic writing principle organized by
both sound-symbol correspondences and morphology.
Morpheme - Correct - ANSWER -> the smallest meaningful unit of language; it may be
a word or a part of word; it may be a single sound, one syllable or multiple syllables
To read an alphabetic alphabet a person must - Correct - ANSWER -> mentally link the
alphabetic symbols with the single speech sounds or phonemes that they represent.
AND REVISED IN 2024-2025 DECEMBER
d. 64% nationally, with African-American and Hispanic students making up a
disproportionate amount-Correct - ANSWER -> 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
c. Its spelling system represents meaningful parts (morphemes) as well as sounds.-
Correct - ANSWER -> 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.
d. visual-motor skills and visual-spatial reasoning-Correct - ANSWER -> Which skills are
least correlated with reading comprehension in children?
a. spelling and writing
b. oral language skills
c. word-reading accuracy and fluency
d. visual-motor skills and visual-spatial reasoning
d. Both are equally important.-Correct - ANSWER -> 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.
a. Our brains have evolved to process spoken language much more easily than
,alphabetic writing.-Correct - ANSWER -> 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.
LETRS Unit 1 - Session 1
Phonics - Correct - ANSWER -> relationship between letters and sounds. Code based
instruction.
Phonemic Awareness - Correct - ANSWER -> awareness of individual speech sounds
(consonants and vowels) in spoken syllables and the ability to consciously manipulate
those sounds.
Alphabetic Writing is less than ____________ years old. - Correct - ANSWER -> 5,000
90% of all spoken languages have no - Correct - ANSWER -> written form, let alone an
alphabet that represents the separate sounds of speech.
Syllable - Correct - ANSWER -> the unit of pronunciation that is organized around a
vowel; it may or may not have a consonant after the vowel.
Egyptians invented the first alphabet in - Correct - ANSWER -> 2,000 BCE
Phoenician alphabet was developed in and was the granfather of our
alphabet 19 of 26 letters can be traced. - Correct - ANSWER -> 1,000 BCE
Modern American English spelling was settled in 1828 with - Correct - ANSWER ->
Webster's Dictionary
Orthograpy - Correct - ANSWER -> a writing system for representing language
Morphonphonemic - Correct - ANSWER -> alphabetic writing principle organized by
both sound-symbol correspondences and morphology.
Morpheme - Correct - ANSWER -> the smallest meaningful unit of language; it may be
a word or a part of word; it may be a single sound, one syllable or multiple syllables
To read an alphabetic alphabet a person must - Correct - ANSWER -> mentally link the
alphabetic symbols with the single speech sounds or phonemes that they represent.
