LETRS Unit 3 - Session 1- 8 | Verified | 100% Correct Answers

LETRS Unit 1 - Session 1 Phonics Correct Answer: relationship between letters and sounds. Code based instruction. Phonemic Awareness Correct Answer: 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. Correct Answer: 5,000 90% of all spoken languages have no Correct Answer: written form, let alone an alphabet that represents the separate sounds of speech. Syllable Correct Answer: 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 Correct Answer: 2,000 BCE LETRS Unit 1 - Session 1- 8 | Verified | 100% Correct Answers Phoenician alphabet was developed in and was the granfather of our alphabet 19 of 26 letters can be traced. Correct Answer: 1,000 BCE Modern American English spelling was settled in 1828 with Correct Answer: Webster's Dictionary Orthograpy Correct Answer: a writing system for representing language Morphonphonemic Correct Answer: alphabetic writing principle organized by both sound-symbol correspondences and morphology. Morpheme Correct Answer: 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 Correct Answer: mentally link the alphabetic symbols with the single speech sounds or phonemes that they represent. All alphabets require Correct Answer: speech sound (phoneme) awareness by the reader. Shallow or Transparent Alphabetic Orthography Correct Answer: correspondences in the alphabetic writing system are regular and predictable. One sound represented by one symbol or letter