LETRS Unit 1 - Session 1 Exams with Verified Answers 2022/2023 Grade A

LETRS Unit 1 - Session 1 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. Morpheme 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 mentally link the alphabetic symbols with the single speech sounds or phonemes that they represent. All alphabets require speech sound (phoneme) awareness by the reader. Shallow or Transparent Alphabetic Orthography correspondences in the alphabetic writing system are regular and predictable. One sound represented by one symbol or letter. Deep or Opague Alphabetic Orthography the spelling system represens morphemes (meaningful parts) as well as speech sounds. Morphophonemic contains both phonemes and morphemes. Advantages of Alphabetic Writing permits any word to be read or written in a language with a small set of symbols