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Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling(LETRS)|questions| with 100% Correct Answers|Unit 1 and 2

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Informed teachers are _____ assurance against reading failure. Correct Answer: our best phonics Correct Answer: the study of the relationships between letters and the sounds they represent phonemic ... awareness Correct Answer: conscious awareness of the individual speech sounds (constants and vowels) in spoken syllables and the ability to consciously manipulate those sounds. syllable Correct Answer: Unit of pronunciation that is organized around a vowel; it may or may not have consonants before or after the vowel. orthography Correct Answer: writing system for representing language morphophonemic Correct Answer: deep alphabetic writing system organized by both sound-symbol correspondences and morphology (English orthography) morpheme Correct Answer: in language, the smallest unit that carries meaning metalinguistic awareness Correct Answer: ability to think about and reflect on the structure of the language itself simple view of reading Correct Answer: word recognition (decoding) x language comprehension (comprehending) = reading comprehension decoding Correct Answer: ability to translate a word from print to speech (sound-symbol correspondences) discourse Correct Answer: written or spoken communication ("the exchange") of information and ideas (between writer & reader) Listening comprehension may _____ reading comprehension, but the reverse is _______. Correct Answer: exceed, not true phonology Correct Answer: phonemes can be sequenced, combined, and pronounced to make words (rule system withing language) (sounds /p/ and /k/ are never adjacent) morphology Correct Answer: study of meaningful units in a language and how the units are combined in word formation (Nat- root, Nature- noun, natural- adjective) semantics Correct Answer: study of word and phrase meanings and relationships (rank has multiple meanings) syntax Correct Answer: system of rules governing permissible word order in sentences ("Our district recruits new teachers" "New teachers our district recruits") [Show More]

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