LETRS Unit 1 - Session 5 Questions and Answers (2026/2027) (Verified Answers)
LETRS Unit 1 - Session 5
 Expert teaching focuses on . . .✔✔✔ the relevant subskills that enable
a child to pass through each phase of reading development
successfully and are tailored to the student's strengths and
weaknesses across the major components of reading.
 Until the bank of known words has grown to several thousand, kindergarten and first-grade students will expend most of their mental effort on .
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.✔✔✔ decoding.
 The major subcomponents of reading in the SVR change in relative
impor- tance . . .✔✔✔ between grades 1 and 8.
 The ability to recognize many words by "sight" during fluent
reading depends on . . .✔✔✔ phonemic awareness and the ability to
map phonemes to graphemes.
 Alphabetic learning requires progressive differentiation of both . .
.✔✔✔ the sounds in words and the letter sequences in print.
 Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping✔✔✔ The matching of phonemes
(sounds) in words with the graphemes (letters) that represent them.
 Most students require lots of additional practice in second and third
grade before they can read . . .✔✔✔ grade level passages with fluency
and comprehension and reading has become automatic.
 Name Ehri's Phases of Word-Reading Development✔✔✔
Prealphabetic, Early Alphabetic, Later Alphabetic, Consolidated
Alphabetic
 Prealphabetic Phase✔✔✔ No letter-sound awareness, guessing
constrained by context or memory, cannot read text, and strings
random letters together
 Early Alphabetic Phase✔✔✔ Initial sound and salient consonants,
constrained by context (gets first sound and guesses), confuses
similar-appearing words, represents a few salient sounds (such as
beginning and ending consonants), fills in other letters randomly,
knows some letter names for sounds
 Later Alphabetic Phase✔✔✔ Pronunciation of whole words on the
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