LETRS Unit 4 - Session 2 Questions And Answers

LETRS Unit 4 - Session 2 Questions And Answers Many graphemes are used only when sounds occur in specific positions or are adjacent to specific phonemes . __________ words according to position is an effective activity for a complete phonics lesson. Correct Answer: sorting When the letter ____ is followed by e, i or y, it represents its soft sound, /s/, as in cent, cycl, cinder, nice, and peace. Correct Answer: c When the letter c is followed by a, o, or u, it spells its hard sound, ____ , as in cake, cut, and cook. Correct Answer: /k/ The letter ____ followed by e, i or y often represents /j/, its soft sound, as in gentle, gist, gem, gyro and gym. Co rrect Answer: g The _____ sound of g, /g/, is more frequent than the soft sound. When the letter g is followed by a, o, or u, it usually has its hard sound, as in gas, gold, got, gum, and guess. Correct Answer: hard Words using -tch for /ch/ does so immediately after a stressed _____ vowel. Correct Answer: short The letter ___ is never used for the consonant phoneme /j/ at the end of a word. English uses -ge or -dge. Correct Answer: j Adding the letter d to -ge ke eps the vowel _______. Correct Answer: short The spelling of /ng/ is a great example of the difference between speech and print. Speech came first, and spelling was __________ to represent it - not the other way around. Correct Answer: invented The let ter ____ has five jobs; consonant, vowel (e,i,i) and part of a vowel team - toy, key or buy. Correct Answer: y A _______ _______ is a combination of two, three, or four letters that stand for a vowel (e.g., au, ea, oo, eigh) Correct Answer: vowel team ________ ______________ conventions include; some letters never end a word in English (i,j,q,u, and v), some letters are rarely or never doubled. Correct Answer: Arbitrary Orthographic Fundamental ideas behind phoneme -grapheme __________; one box always represents one sound, there is no inventive spelling, ask students: "What sounds do you hear?" and "What letters do you write?" Students write letters for each sound in the box. Correct Answer: mapping