LETRS Unit 5 Session 1/LETRS Unit 1 Quiz Questions and Answers
Recognizing the meaning of a partially known word in contacts is an example of: -
... [Show More] Correct AnswerReceptive vocabulary
A developed vocabulary in preschoolers predicts better reading comprehension in third grade. - Correct AnswerTrue
About how many words should be taught in depth per week in the primary grades? - Correct Answer10
Every word a student is exposed to it stored in both phonological and semantic lexicons. - Correct AnswerFalse
Ways of closing the language gap for language-poor children early on include: - Correct Answer- improving daycare and preschool programs.
- coaching of infants parents
- Interventions to stimulate language development in Young at risk children
LETRS Unit 1
phonics - Correct AnswerThe study of the relationships between letters and the sounds they represent, also used as a descriptor for code based instruction
phonemic awareness - Correct Answera conscious awareness of individual speech sounds (consonants and vowels) in spoken syllables and the ability to consciously manipulate sounds
syllable - Correct Answera unit of pronunciation that is organized around a vowel, it may or may not have a consonant after the vowel
orthography - Correct Answera writing system for representing language
morphophonemic - Correct Answera deep alphabetic writing system organized by both sound-symbol correspondences and morphology
morpheme - Correct Answerthe smallest meaningful unit of language, it may be a word or a part of a word, it may be single sound, one syllable or multiple syllables
cognate - Correct Answera word in one language that shares a common anscestor and common meanings with a word in another language
metalinguistic awareness - Correct Answerthe ability to think about adn reflect on the structure of language itself.
decoding - Correct Answerthe ability to translate a word from print to speech, usually by employing knowledge of sound symbol correspondences
discourse - Correct Answerwritten or spoken communication or the exchange of information and ideas, usually longer than a sentence, between individuals or between the writer and the reader
academic language - Correct Answerwritten or spoken language that is more stylistically formal than spoken conversational language; language that is most often used in academic discourse and text
orthographic mapping - Correct Answerthe mental process used to store words for immediate and effortless retrieval. It requires phonemic awareness, letter-sound knowledge and the mechanism for sight word learning
lexicon - Correct Answerthe name for the mental dictionary in every person's phonological processing system
grapheme - Correct Answera letter or letter combination that spells a phoneme, can be one, two, three or four letters in English
automaticity - Correct Answerthe ability to read quickly and accurately without conscious effort
phoneme grapheme mapping - Correct Answerthe matching of phonemes (sounds) in words with the graphemes (letters) that represent them
alphabetic principle - Correct Answerthe concept that letters are used to represent individual phonemes in the spoken word; insight into this principle is critical for learning to read and spell
sight vocabulary - Correct Answera student's bank of words that are instantly and effortlessly recognized; includes both regularly spelled and irregularly spelled words
single and double deficit - Correct Answersingle deficit refers to a prominent and specific weakness in either phonological or naming speed processing. Double deficit refers to a combination of phonological and naming speed deficits
norm referenced tests - Correct Answerrefers to standardized tests that are designed to compare and rank test takers in relation to each other
benchmark - Correct Answera standard or set of standards used as a threshold for predicting future risk for reading difficulty
reliable measure - Correct Answera measure that is likely to yield the same result if it were to be given several times on the same day in the same context
valid measure - Correct Answera measure that measures what was intended (construct validity) corresponds well to other known valid measures, and predicts with good accuracy how students are likely to perform on accountability measures
curriculum based measurements - Correct Answerstandardized measurements that assess content that students should master by the end of the grade level that the measurement represents, requires standard administration and scoring [Show Less]