LETRS Unit 1 - Session 1- 8

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 - 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 - 2,000 BCE Phoenician alphabet was developed in _________ and was the granfather of our alphabet 19 of 26 letters can be traced. - 1,000 BCE Modern American English spelling was settled in 1828 with - Webster's Dictionary Orthograpy - a writing system for representing language Morphonphonemic - alphabetic writing principle organized by both sound-symbol correspondences and morphology