LETRS Unit 1 Sessions 1-8 Assessment/Quizzes.

LETRS Unit 1 Sessions 1-8 Assessment/Quizzes. LETRS Unit 1 - Session 1. Phonics - The study of the relationships between letters and the sounds they represent; also used to describe code based instruction Phonemic Awareness - The conscious awareness of the individual speech sounds (consonants and vowels) in spike syllables and the ability to manipulate those sounds syllable - a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word orthography - A writing system for representing language. morphophonemic - Deep alphabetic writing system organized by both sound-symbol correspondences and morphology Morpheme - in language, the smallest unit that carries meaning, it may be a single sound (/s/ plural), one syllable (suffix -ful), or multiple syllables (prefix inter-) cognate - A word in one language that shares a common ancestor and common meanings with a word in another language metalinguistic awareness - The ability to think about and reflect in reflect on the structure of language itself Decoding - The ability to translate a word from print to speech, usually by employing knowledge of sound-symbol correspondences Simple View of Reading - Word recognition X Language comprehension = reading comprehension LETRS Unit 1 - Session 1 (2) Phonics - relationship between letters and sounds. Code based instruction. Phonemic Awareness - awareness of individual speech sounds (consonants and vowels) in spoken syllables and the ability to consciously manipulate those sounds. Alphabetic Writing is less than years old. - 5,000 90% of all spoken languages have no - written form, let alone an alphabet that represents the separate sounds of speech. Syllable