LETRS Unit 1 - Session 5 Questions and Answers 2026/2027

LETRS Unit 1 - Session 5 Questions and Answers (2026/2027) ( 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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