LETRS Unit 1 - 8 Final Assessment questions and answers

1. early literacy: foundational skills learned from birth to 5-6 years of age. 2. Big 5 Ideas in Reading: phonemic awareness phonics vocal fluency comprehension 3. three areas used to predict of well kids read: oral language phonological processing print knowledge 4. literacy factors wit...

1. If a class is at grade level in reading achievement, what can the teacher expect of the class's writing achievement?: Significantly more students will be proficient in reading than in writing. 2. What is the main reason why writing is learned slowly and with effort over a long time?: Writing ...

1. Based on the grapheme representing /sh/, which word is probably from French?: machine 2. Which of the following words is most probably from the Anglo-Saxon layer of English?: playground 3. Because of arbitrary and historical conventions governing English orthog- raphy, some letters can ne...

1. In comparison to other alphabetic languages, what feature of the English writing system makes English more difficult for young students to read and spell?: It is phonetically transparent. It is syllabic. It is morphophonemic. It is a shallow orthography. It is morphophonemic. 2. What is ...

1. How should the balance of instructional time spent on foundational read- ing skills and language comprehension between first grade and third grade for typical learners?: The time spent on foundational reading skills should skift from about 40% in first grade to 20% in third grade. 2. What crit...

1. Which of the following is not one of the strands in Scarborough's Reading Rope?: Guided reading 2. How can code-emphasis or phonics-emphasis instruction be used most effectively?: when organized around a logical progression of pattern words that have been taught 3. Which word group might...