LETRS Unit 1 Session 1-4 Review

Most of us are "wired" to learn to read easily and naturally if we are surrounded by books in early childhood.

• True

• False

The Four Part Processing Model reminds us that instruction should aim to educate all the processing systems and enable them to work together.

• True

• False

One cannot understand by reading what one cannot understand by listening.

• True

• False

Children with phonological processing weaknesses are common in the population of students who struggle to acquire basic reading skills or who have spelling disabilities.

• True

• False

What is it called when someone is able read quickly and accurately without conscious effort?

• illiterate

• automaticity

• graphophonic

Phonics instruction is important NOT a last resort.

• True

• False

The simple view of reading states that learning to read should be simple if we emphasize comprehension sufficiently.

• True

• False

What system of language focuses on the smallest meaning (prefix, root, suffix)?

• semantics

• phonology

• syntax

• morphology

Which two processors are involved in decoding?

• meaning and context

• orthographic and meaning

• phonological and orthographic

• phonological and context