LETRS Early Childhood Unit 3

When a child is able to segment words by syllables, the next step in his or her learning is to: - Answer- segment words by the beginning sound and rest of the word. The "online" memory system that remembers speech long enough to extract meaning from it, or that holds onto words during writing - Answer- Phonological working memory The ability to efficiently retrieve words stored in long-term memory using phonological information - Answer- Phonological naming The ability to hear and become sensitive to the sounds of language - Answer- Phonological sensitivity The concept that letters are used to represent individual phonemes in the spoken word - Answer- Alphabetic principle The conscious awareness of all levels of the speech sound system, including syllables, initial sounds, and phonemes - Answer- Phonological awareness The stage at which children become more consciously aware of word meanings and word structures, usually in the early preschool years - Answer- Metaphonological stage What is the initial sound in "giraffe"? - Answer- /j/ What is the final sound in "six"? - Answer- /s/ How many sounds are in the word "eight"? - Answer- 2 How many sounds are in the word "thumb"? - Answer- 3 Phonological representation might be thought of as which of the following? - Answer- inner speech Children learn to hear the sounds in words before learning to restructure them to whole words. - Answer- false Based on his response to this item, has Lenny developed phonological representation? - Answer- yes How many sound segments can Lenny keep in phonological working memory? - Answer- 2 Which statements describe Lenn