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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, 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
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.
Decoding Correct Answer: the ability to translate a word from print to speech, usually by employing knowledge of sound-symbol correspondences. Unit 1 - Session 2 is the act of translating print into meaning. Correct Answer: Reading is the written or spoken communication "or the exchange of information and ideas, usually longer than a sentence, between individuals or between the writer and the reader. Correct Answer: Discourse Learning two languages simultaneously, the brain establishes a separate for each language. Correct Answer: neural system The of typical reading begins around age five and continues for about six years until full reading fluency is achieved. Correct Answer: progression comprehension may exceed reading comprehension. The reverse is not true. Correct Answer: Listening Tests of phonemic awareness, phonics, word recognition, and spelling are more important for locating students at risk for reading problems in the
. Correct Answer: primary grades
Phonology Correct Answer: phonemes or speech sounds of language Orthography Correct Answer: writing system that represents language Morphology Correct Answer: study of meaningful units in words Semantics Correct Answer: the study of word and phrase meaning Syntax Correct Answer: rules governing words in sentence Discourse Correct Answer: conventions used to organize spoken/written language Pragmatics Correct Answer: rules using language, gestures, social context Unit 1 - Session 3 We do not over print when we read. Correct Answer: skip The eyes rest for about seconds on a content word. Correct Answer:. The eyes take in a span of letters to the right of fixation and 3 - 4 letters to the left before jumping to the next point. Correct Answer: 7 - 9
The is at the junction of the parietal, occipital, and temporal lobes. This area is critical for mapping phonemes to graphemes. Correct Answer: planum temporale The Temporal lobe is responsbile for Correct Answer: language comprehension The - Processing Model reminds us that instruction should aim to educate all of the processing systems and enable them to work together. Correct Answer: Four - Part The name of the mental dictionary in every person's phonological processing system. Correct Answer: Lexicon Phonological Processing System Correct Answer: Organizes and identifies phonemes, speech sounds, compare similar words, lexicon and taking apart sounds in a word. Orthographic Processing System Correct Answer: Stores information about print that increases the efficiency of word recognition and spelling. Perfetti's lexical quality hypothesis - the better a reader knows all aspects of a word's and the more quickly he/she can recognize the word in speech and print. Correct Answer: form and meaning
Students cannot comprehend text if they cannot the written words accuratel and quickly. Correct Answer: name During reading, your eyes typically stop on a word for about 250 milliseconds. In what situation(s) do your eyes need to fixate longer on a word? a. when you read silently b. when you read aloud c. when you read an unfamiliar word Correct Answer: b. when you read aloud c. when you read an unfamiliar word Select the lobe of the brain that is responsible for higher-level thinking and planning, and for processing the sounds of speech. Correct Answer: Frontal Lobe Select the lobe of the brain that is responsible for recognizing print, letters, and letter patterns. Correct Answer: Occipital lobe Select the lobe of the brain where language is comprehended. Correct Answer: Temporal lobe Select the lobe of the brain that processes sensory information such as temperature, taste, and touch. Correct Answer: Parietal lobe Which of the following statements best explains why The Four-Part Processing Model is useful?
/swǐh/ /sw/ Correct Answer: /s/ What is the last sound in "switch"? /h/ /sh/ /ch/ /ǐtch/ Correct Answer: /ǐtch/ What is the vowel sound in "switch"? Choose your response. /ē/ /ī/ /ə/ /ĭ/ Correct Answer: /ĭ/ During reading, our eyes process each word letter by letter. true false Correct Answer: true How many letters does the eye normally take in at each fixation point before moving on to the next fixation point?
