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LETRS Unit 3 Test Questions & Answers Teachers who take a code-emphasis approach to instruction generally do not discuss the meanings of words being taught. - The ability to decode a new, previou... sly unknown printed word, in or out of context, depends on - The term phonics may be used to refer to - Which of the following are typical of meaning-emphasis approaches to instruction? - Which of the following is typically done as an extended practice activity in phonics lessons? - Regularly spelled words - Irregularly spelled words Why is the letter "x" referred to as an odd letter? - Which word contains a consonant trigraph? - Which is an example of a consonant blend? - What is the difference between a digraph and a blend? - Which of the following sets includes ONLY consonant blends? - How many phonemes are in the word "flax"? - How many phonemes are in the word "quick"? - Which pair of words has the same number of phonemes? - Which of the following sets includes only words with vowel teams? - Which is the most consistent pattern in the way English uses vowel graphemes? - What makes the vowel-r combination difficult for students to learn to read and spell? - Consonant Digraph examples - VCe (Vowel-Consoant-e) examples - Silent Letter Grapheme examples - Vowel Team examples - Vowel-r examples - Consonant Blend examples - Floss Rule Words - Non-floss rule words - Complete this sentence: A complex syllable is a syllable that contains a Complete this sentence: Vowel teams in English can have up to ___ letters. - Which group of words include only words that have consonant digraphs, and no words with blends? - Which set of words illustrates both the Floss Rule and the "-ck" Rule? - Roughly half of all words in English can be spelled correctly based on established sound-symbol correspondences. - When students are "graduating" to the next Ehri's phases, their approach to reading will be qualitatively different than the previous phase. Students with solid phonics skills tend to recognize sight words more quickly, regardless of how regular the words' spelling are. - Kasey has solid phonemic awareness and knows all 26 letters. Her phonetic spellings of speech sounds are logical, but she is just learning to spell words. Which phase best describes her? - Which is the best way to assess students' ability to recognize real words in print? - Which of the following should be a major instructional focus for students at the consolidated alphabetic phase? Which grouping of letters best supports instruction in letter formation and why? - Which is the most effective order of instruction for teaching a new letter formation? - Which of the following letter-sound correspondences should be taught early on? - Which of the following letter names and corresponding sounds are easiest to learn and why? When and how should letter names be taught? Which key word is the best example of the short "e" sound-symbol correspondence? - Short a Key Word - Short e Key Word - Short i Key Word - Short o Key Word - Short u Key Word - Words you shouldn't use as short vowel key words - Instead of having students move their hands like a snake for the sound /s/, the teacher could ask students to point to a picture of a snake. Why did the teacher have students scrape with their hands when they heard the sound /k/ in a word? - Why didn't the teacher use "ship" as a key word instead of "snake"? - She is not teaching the digraph "sh" and the first sound in "ship" is /sh/ not /s/. "Thud" has three phonemes. With which phonemes might a Spanish-speaking EL have difficulty? - After blending activities are introduced, these activities need to be modeled only once or twice a week. - Which set of words would work well for introducing blending routines? Knowledge of letter names in kindergarten is an excellent predictor of later reading success. Students should establish a habit of trying to blend all the sounds in a word before they "adjust" or "flex" the pronunciation to make a real word. Which activities are recommended to help students develop visual-motor skills before they learn to form letters? When teaching letter formation, which strategy can be used to group letters together for instruction? -. Which guidelines should teachers follow when choosing key words for sound-spelling cards? When using word lists, teachers should always call on individual students to read the words. - In the exercise shown, why was a "ringer" word included in the first list? - CVC word examples - CCVC word examples - CVCC word examples - CCVCC word examples - Which word chain would be the easiest one for students just beginning to learn word chaining? - Word chains using minimally contrasting pairs can be done as a teacher-led activity, group work, or an independent practice activity. - Which chain shows a progression of minimally contrasting pairs? - What reading skill is developed by working with word families? - Which group of words below is a word family? - Choose the word that works best with this sample word chain: chat, _____, map, gap. Choose the word that works best with this sample word chain: mop, _____, ship, lip Which of the following word chains is NOT appropriate for instruction? Which of the following word chains IS appropriate for instruction? Word chain activities should use real words only. - Open sort activities are most appropriate for advanced students who already know how to look for an orthographic pattern. - About how many words should be used within a lesson to provide practice with a give sound-symbol correspondence? - Which activities provide direct practice working with word meaning? Which activity is best for helping students distinguish between easily confused speech sounds such a /k/ and /g/? - Nearly all high-frequency words in English are irregular. - Good instruction primarily emphasizes teaching irregular high-frequency words. - Pattern words that are easy to read are also easy for students to spell. - Sentence dictation routines should include reminders about basic writing conventions (capitalization and end punctuation). - Which is the best definition of the term sight words? - How often should teachers introduce students to new irregular, high-frequency words? - Which text type includes phrases repeated frequently with only one or two words that change? Which text type includes words often seen in text, regardless of what patterns have been taught? - Which text type mainly includes words that follow patterns previously taught in phonics lessons? - Which text type does NOT support weak readers' skills even though students are often assigned it based on tests? - Asking questions during reading is not recommended, because this is can distract students. - Leveled texts are ranked on objective readability criteria, gradually becoming more difficult as students progress through the levels. - If a teacher follows a systematic process for transferring phonics skills to text, it's reasonable to expect students to read a decodable passage independently after a week of instruction. - A school library has available a series of lavishly illustrated predictable texts written in verse. What are the most appropriate ways to use these in the classroom? Students are reading a decodable text that uses only pattern words or high-frequency words students have been taught. What level of reading accuracy is reasonable to expect? Over the course of a week of phonics instruction, which step in the Transfer to Text Process is the first that can be phased out? - [Show More]

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