Letrs Unit 1 Assessment 2023/2024

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? semantics orthography morphology phonology {Ans: phonology}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. {Ans: It is morphophonemic.}What is one important distinction between the Four-Part Processing Model for Word Recognition and the Three-Cueing Systems model? The Three-Cueing Systems model emphasizes the role of phonology. The Three-Cueing Systems model omits or obscures the role of phonology. The Three-Cueing Systems model omits semantic processing. The Four-Part Processing Model emphasizes visual processes. {Ans: The Three-Cueing Systems model omits or obscures the role of phonology.}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? oral language comprehension and reading aloud attending to context, including semantic and syntactic