Letrs Unit 1 Assessment Study Guide Questions And Correct Answers

What is the value of data provided by screening measures? {Ans: They can predict which students are at long-term risk for reading failure.}Many students at risk for reading problems enter school without exposure to the academic language used in books or preschool experience. These students are most likely to make progress closing the reading and language gap if their classroom instruction emphasizes which of the following? {Ans: both foundational reading skills and oral language development}What does the ability to recognize many words "by sight" during fluent reading depend on? {Ans: phonemic awareness and the ability to map graphemes to phonemes}A kindergarten teacher is having students listen to three spoken words and identify the two words that end with the same sound. The teacher is focusing on which language system? {Ans: phonology}What is one important distinction between the Four-Part Processing Model for Word Recognition and the Three-Cueing Systems model? {Ans: The Three-Cueing Systems model omits or obscures the role of phonology.}A second-grade teacher, in preparation for reading a new text about honeybees, asks the students to brainstorm all the meanings they know for the word comb. The teacher is primarily focusing on which language system?