Unit 1 and 2- LETRS

Informed teachers are _____ assurance against reading failure. our best phonics the study of the relationships between letters and the sounds they represent phonemic awareness conscious awareness of the individual speech sounds (constants and vowels) in spoken syllables and the ability to consciously manipulate those sounds. syllable Unit of pronunciation that is organized around a vowel; it may or may not have consonants before or after the vowel. orthography writing system for representing language morphophonemic deep alphabetic writing system organized by both sound-symbol correspondences and morphology (English orthography) morpheme in language, the smallest unit that carries meaning metalinguistic awareness ability to think about and reflect on the structure of the language itself simple view of reading word recognition (decoding) x language comprehension (comprehending) = reading comprehension decoding ability to translate a word from print to speech (sound-symbol correspondences) discourse written or spoken communication ("the exchange") of information and ideas (between writer & reader) Listening comprehension may _____ reading comprehension, but the reverse is _______. exceed, not true phonology phonemes can be sequenced, combined, and pronounced to make words (rule system withing language) (sounds /p/ and /k/ are never adjacent) morphology study of meaningful units in a language and how the units are combined in word formation (Nat- root, Nature- noun, natural- adjective) semantics study of word and phrase meanings and relationships (rank has multiple meanings) syntax system of rules governing permissible word order in sentences ("Our district recruits new teachers" "New teachers our district recruits")