LETRS Unit 1: Sessions 1-8 With Complete
Solutions
LETRS unit 1 session 1
According to the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress, what
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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 - d. 64% nationally, with African-American and
Hispanic students making up a disproportionate amount
Reading comprehension is not a single construct. Rather, the ability to
understand what you read relies on multiple components. Once readers
become more skilled in word recognition, which of the following components
increase in their importance?
a. spelling and phonemic awareness
b. orthographic knowledge and background knowledge
c. cognates and syllable awareness
d. background knowledge and vocabulary - d. background knowledge and
vocabulary
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. - a. Our brains have evolved to process spoken language much
more easily than alphabetic writing.
What characteristic makes English a "deep" alphabetic orthography?
a. Its spelling system is entirely phonetic.
b. Its spelling system shares many word roots with ot [Show Less]