LETRS Units 1-4 POSTTEST QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
A good phonics lesson should include opportunities for students to apply the phoneme- grapheme relationships that have been explicitly taught. Which text type would best provide the practice needed? - Correct Answerdecodable text
A second-grade student writes, "I have finely finished my math project." Her misspelling of the word finally most likely indicates which of the following? - Correct AnswerShe needs to know how the meaningful parts distinguish a word.
A student spells skin as "sgin." What type of phonological error did she make? - Correct Answersubstitution of a voiced for an unvoiced consonant
A teacher has posted a word wall in first grade, using alphabetic order to list the words the students must learn. For example, under T are the words to, too, them, the, this, then. How could the teacher best ensure that students will recognize and spell these words? - Correct Answerby removing regularly spelled th words, and teaching them through sound blending
After results of a winter screening, six second-graders scored in the "somewhat at risk" range. What is the next step the teacher team should take? - Correct AnswerAnalyze the screening results and gather additional diagnosis assessment data.
Choose the best key word for introduction of short e. - Correct Answerecho
Having students listen to a word, say it, and then mentally reverse the sounds in the word is an instructional activity that would be most appropriate for which students? - Correct Answerthose who have mastered basic phonemic awareness
How can a teacher explain to students why there is a double n in beginning? - Correct AnswerThe base word ends in a single-consonant preceded by a single vowel, and the suffix begins with a vowel.
How can phonics instruction be organized to be most effective? - Correct Answeraround a preplanned progression through a logical skill sequence
How is the word sn-ow divided? - Correct Answeronset-rime
How many spoken syllables are there in cleaned? - Correct Answer1
How many spoken syllables are there in frightening? - Correct Answer3
If a midyear first-grader reaches benchmark on screening for correct letter sounds, but does not read any whole words accurately when asked to read simple nonsense
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