Letrs Unit 1 Assessment Study Guide Questions And Correct Answers

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}In any first-grade classroom in a typical school in the United States, approximately one-third of students are likely to score in the "basic" or "below basic" range. The largest proportion of those students is likely to show which characteristics? {Ans: primary difficulties with phonology, decoding, and word recognition}In comparison to other alphabetic languages, what feature of the English writing system makes English more difficult for young students to read and spell? {Ans: It is morphophonemic.}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.}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 second-grade teacher, in preparation for reading a new text about honeybees, asks the students