LETRS Unit 1 Questions and Answers
(2023/2024) (Verified Answers)
phonics
The study of the relationships between letters and the sounds they represent, also used as a
descriptor for code based instruction
phonemic awareness
a conscious awareness of individual speech sounds (consonants and vowels) in spoken syllables and
the ability to consciously manipulate sounds
syllable
a unit of pronunciation that is organized around a vowel, it may or may not have a consonant after
the vowel
orthography
a writing system for representing language
morphophonemic
a deep alphabetic writing system organized by both sound-symbol correspondences and morphology
morpheme
the smallest meaningful unit of language, it may be a word or a part of a word, it may be single sound,
one syllable or multiple syllables
cognate
a word in one language that shares a common anscestor and common meanings with a word in
another language
metalinguistic awareness
the ability to think about adn 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
discourse
written or spoken communication or the exchange of information and ideas, usually longer than a
sentence, between individuals or between the writer and the reader
academic language
written or spoken language that is more stylistically formal than spoken conversational language;
language that is most often used in academic discourse and text
orthographic mapping
(2023/2024) (Verified Answers)
phonics
The study of the relationships between letters and the sounds they represent, also used as a
descriptor for code based instruction
phonemic awareness
a conscious awareness of individual speech sounds (consonants and vowels) in spoken syllables and
the ability to consciously manipulate sounds
syllable
a unit of pronunciation that is organized around a vowel, it may or may not have a consonant after
the vowel
orthography
a writing system for representing language
morphophonemic
a deep alphabetic writing system organized by both sound-symbol correspondences and morphology
morpheme
the smallest meaningful unit of language, it may be a word or a part of a word, it may be single sound,
one syllable or multiple syllables
cognate
a word in one language that shares a common anscestor and common meanings with a word in
another language
metalinguistic awareness
the ability to think about adn 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
discourse
written or spoken communication or the exchange of information and ideas, usually longer than a
sentence, between individuals or between the writer and the reader
academic language
written or spoken language that is more stylistically formal than spoken conversational language;
language that is most often used in academic discourse and text
orthographic mapping
