LETRS UNIT 2 Questions and Answers
Assessing phonological skills is almost never appropriate after a child has completed first grade. - Correct Answerfalse
Phonemic awareness is difficult to measure directly as an isolated skill. - Correct AnswerTrue
Which kinds of tasks are the primary ...
Assessing phonological skills is almost never appropriate after a child has completed
first grade. - Correct Answerfalse
Phonemic awareness is difficult to measure directly as an isolated skill. - Correct
AnswerTrue
Which kinds of tasks are the primary focus of phonological skills assessments in grades
k-1? - Correct Answerphoneme segmentation and blending
Kelsey is in grade 2. Previously a strong reader, she has now fallen behind. She reads
grade-level texts haltingly, struggling to recognize words with blends. Which
phonological task would she likely struggle with? - Correct Answer"Say crate. Now say
crate but don't say /K/" and "Say bask. Now say bask but don't say /s/.
Students in Ehri's prealphabetic phase need instruction in basic oral language skills
before manipulating phonemes. - Correct AnswerTrue
Sound chaining should begin with substituting the middle sounds and end sounds in a
word, as these are most difficult. - Correct AnswerFalse
Which of the following principles are important for teaching phonological skills in
particular? - Correct AnswerFocus students' attention on speech sounds before
focusing on letters, include all English phonemes in instruction.
Which activities work with students at the early phonological awareness level? - Correct
Answerhaving students identify rhyming words in texts you read aloud, having students
clap or tap to count the syllables in a word you say, saying a two-syllable word then
asking students to delete one syllable and say the word that results.
A colleague is going to start beginning sound chaining activities with students at the
basic phonemic awareness level, using colored blocks to represent sounds. What is the
most important guideline to follow? - Correct AnswerHave students add, change, delete,
or move only ONE sound at a time
What is the primary purpose of doing sound chaining activities and minimal pairs
activities with students? - Correct Answergetting them to attend carefully to specific
phonemes, one at a time.
Which of the following pairs of words is more difficult for students who are struggling
with phonology to discriminate, segment, and blend? - Correct Answer"chomp" and
"lump" because the final sounds are consonant blends.
, Which series of activities represents the best instructional progression for children at the
early phonological awareness level? - Correct Answerdelete syllables from compounds,
clap syllables in three-syllable words; divide words with onset-rime.
In early phonological awareness alliteration exercises, how important is explaining that
different letters make the same sound - Correct AnswerNot important; students don't
need to know how the words are spelled
Which English phonemes can be omitted from phonological awareness instruction? -
Correct Answernone; all should be taught
Which is the best approach to planning phonological awareness instruction? - Correct
AnswerPlan a brief session (5-10 minutes) each day.
What is the first and primary focus of teaching phonemic awareness? - Correct
Answerteaching students specific phonemes and how they feel in the mouth
Classroom phonemic awareness exercises should be - Correct Answermultisensory,
involving hearing, sound, touch, and movement
What item would you use to show students how to articulate specific phonemes? -
Correct Answera mirror
Spanish has 22 phonemes represented by 27 symbols, compared to English's 44
phonemes and 26 symbols. - Correct AnswerTrue
The variations common in African American English are predictable and governed by
rules. - Correct AnswerTrue
Which of the following occurs as a result of coarticulation? - Correct AnswerAllophonic
variations, in which we pronounce individual phonemes differently from how would
pronounce them in isolation and misspellings of words that are, in fact, phonetically
logical
Which of the following misspellings likely results from confusion about unaspirated or
deaspirated stop consonants? - Correct Answerspelling skip as "sgip"
In which group of words does a tongue flap create significant differences between
American and British pronunciations? - Correct AnswerCattle, City, Metal
"Trick-or-treating" is misspelled "chicrchetit." Why did this student begin the words "trick"
and "treat" with the letters "ch"? - Correct AnswerThe sound at the beginning of these
words sounds like /ch/ due to the allophonic variation of affrication; /t/ is followed by /r/.
Which allophonic variation is responsible for the misspelling of the word "candy" as
"cade"? - Correct Answernasalization of the vowel
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