LETRS Unit 1 - Session 1

relationship between letters and sounds. Code based instruction.

awareness of individual speech sounds (consonants and vowels) in spoken syllables and the ability to consciously manipulate those sounds.

5,000

written form, let alone an alphabet that represents the separate sounds of speech.

the unit of pronunciation that is organized around a vowel; it may or may not have a consonant after the vowel.

2,000 BCE

1,000 BCE

Webster's Dictionary

a writing system for representing language

alphabetic writing principle organized by both sound-symbol correspondences and morphology.

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

mentally link the alphabetic symbols with the single speech sounds or phonemes that they represent.

speech sound (phoneme) awareness by the reader.

correspondences in the alphabetic writing system are regular and predictable. One sound represented by one symbol or letter.

the spelling system represens morphemes (meaningful parts) as well as speech sounds. Morphophonemic contains both phonemes and morphemes.

permits any word to be read or written in a language with a small set of symbols. A limited number of symbols can be combined to create the entire language, even new words. Language can be written and read by anyone who can match the symbols to the sounds they represent.

People are wired to process speech sounds. The phoneme -that sound that a letter represents - is not self evident, natural, or consciously accessible understanding for humans.

the ability think about and reflect on the structure of language itself. The invention of the alphabet was an achievement.

Word Recognition x Language Comprehension = Reading Comprehension

The accurate and fast retrieval of decoded word forms, is essential for the development of reading comprehension.

listening comprehension or the linguistic processes involved in the comprehension of oral language.

the ability to translate a word from print to speech, usually by employing knowledge of sound-symbol correspondences.