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100% Correct Answers
LETRS Unit 1 - Session
1
instruction.
Phonics Correct Answer: relationship between letters and sounds. Code based
(
manipulate those
sounds.
Phonemic Awareness Correct Answer: awareness of individual speech sounds
consonants and vowels) in spoken syllables and the ability to consciously
90
Alphabetic Writing is less than ___________ years old. Correct Answer: 5,000
% of all spoken languages have no Correct Answer: written form, let alone an
alphabet that represents the separate sounds of speech.
Syllable Correct Answer: the unit of pronunciation that is organized around a
vowel; it may or may not have a consonant after the vowel.
Egyptians invented the first alphabet in Correct Answer: 2,000
BCE
,Phoenician alphabet was developed in _________ and was the granfather of our
alphabet 19 of 26 letters can be traced. Correct Answer: 1,000 BCE
Modern American English spelling was settled in 1828 with Correct Answer:
Webster's Dictionary
Orthograpy Correct Answer: a writing system for representing language
Morphonphonemic Correct Answer: alphabetic writing principle organized by
both sound-symbol correspondences and morphology.
Morpheme Correct Answer: the smallest meaningful unit of language; it may be
a word or a part of word; it may be a single sound, one syllable or multiple
syllables
To read an alphabetic alphabet a person must Correct Answer: mentally link the
alphabetic symbols with the single speech sounds or phonemes that they
represent.
All alphabets require Correct Answer: speech sound (phoneme) awareness by
the reader.
Shallow or Transparent Alphabetic Orthography Correct Answer:
correspondences in the alphabetic writing system are regular and predictable.
One sound represented by one symbol or letter.
,Deep or Opague Alphabetic Orthography Correct Answer: the spelling system
represens morphemes (meaningful parts) as well as speech sounds.
Morphophonemic contains both phonemes and morphemes.
Advantages of Alphabetic Writing Correct Answer: permits any word to be read
or written in a language with a small set of symbols. A limited number of symbols
can be combined to create the entire language, even new words. Language can
be written and read by anyone who can match the symbols to the sounds they
represent.
Disadvantages of Alphabetic Writing Correct Answer: People are wired to process
speech sounds. The phoneme -that sound that a letter represents - is not self
evident, natural, or consciously accessible understanding for humans.
Metalinguistic Awareness Correct Answer: the ability think about and reflect on
the structure of language itself. The invention of the alphabet was an
achievement.
The Simple View of Reading Correct Answer: Word Recognition x Language
Comprehension = Reading Comprehension
Word Recognition Correct Answer: The accurate and fast retrieval of decoded
word forms, is essential for the development of reading comprehension.
Language comprehension Correct Answer: listening comprehension or the
linguistic processes involved in the comprehension of oral language.
, Decoding Correct Answer: the ability to translate a word from print to speech,
usually by employing knowledge of sound-symbol correspondences.
Unit 1 - Session
______________ is the act of translating print into meaning. Correct Answer:
2
100% Correct Answers
LETRS Unit 1 - Session
1
instruction.
Phonics Correct Answer: relationship between letters and sounds. Code based
(
manipulate those
sounds.
Phonemic Awareness Correct Answer: awareness of individual speech sounds
consonants and vowels) in spoken syllables and the ability to consciously
90
Alphabetic Writing is less than ___________ years old. Correct Answer: 5,000
% of all spoken languages have no Correct Answer: written form, let alone an
alphabet that represents the separate sounds of speech.
Syllable Correct Answer: the unit of pronunciation that is organized around a
vowel; it may or may not have a consonant after the vowel.
Egyptians invented the first alphabet in Correct Answer: 2,000
BCE
,Phoenician alphabet was developed in _________ and was the granfather of our
alphabet 19 of 26 letters can be traced. Correct Answer: 1,000 BCE
Modern American English spelling was settled in 1828 with Correct Answer:
Webster's Dictionary
Orthograpy Correct Answer: a writing system for representing language
Morphonphonemic Correct Answer: alphabetic writing principle organized by
both sound-symbol correspondences and morphology.
Morpheme Correct Answer: the smallest meaningful unit of language; it may be
a word or a part of word; it may be a single sound, one syllable or multiple
syllables
To read an alphabetic alphabet a person must Correct Answer: mentally link the
alphabetic symbols with the single speech sounds or phonemes that they
represent.
All alphabets require Correct Answer: speech sound (phoneme) awareness by
the reader.
Shallow or Transparent Alphabetic Orthography Correct Answer:
correspondences in the alphabetic writing system are regular and predictable.
One sound represented by one symbol or letter.
,Deep or Opague Alphabetic Orthography Correct Answer: the spelling system
represens morphemes (meaningful parts) as well as speech sounds.
Morphophonemic contains both phonemes and morphemes.
Advantages of Alphabetic Writing Correct Answer: permits any word to be read
or written in a language with a small set of symbols. A limited number of symbols
can be combined to create the entire language, even new words. Language can
be written and read by anyone who can match the symbols to the sounds they
represent.
Disadvantages of Alphabetic Writing Correct Answer: People are wired to process
speech sounds. The phoneme -that sound that a letter represents - is not self
evident, natural, or consciously accessible understanding for humans.
Metalinguistic Awareness Correct Answer: the ability think about and reflect on
the structure of language itself. The invention of the alphabet was an
achievement.
The Simple View of Reading Correct Answer: Word Recognition x Language
Comprehension = Reading Comprehension
Word Recognition Correct Answer: The accurate and fast retrieval of decoded
word forms, is essential for the development of reading comprehension.
Language comprehension Correct Answer: listening comprehension or the
linguistic processes involved in the comprehension of oral language.
, Decoding Correct Answer: the ability to translate a word from print to speech,
usually by employing knowledge of sound-symbol correspondences.
Unit 1 - Session
______________ is the act of translating print into meaning. Correct Answer:
2
