LETRS Unit 1 Sessions1-8 Test | 100% [email protected] Top10NursesLETRS Unit 1 Sessions 1-8 Test | 100% Correct Answers.(complete LETRS Unit 1 - Sessions) LETRS Unit 1 Sessions 1-8 Assessment/Quizzes. LETRS Unit 1 Session 1 phonics the study of the relationships between letters and the sounds they represent; also used as a descriptor for code-based instruction phonemic awareness the conscious awareness of the individual speech sounds (consonants and vowels) in spoken syllables and the ability to consciously manipulate those sounds. Five Essential Components of Reading Instruction Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. pictographs primitive writing system that directly represented or made pictures of the intended meaning (hieroglyphics) logographs writing system where symbols were used to represent meanings rather than sound (Chinese radicals and Mayan gylphs) syllabic symbols writing system that directly represented whole syllables (cherokee) alphabetic writing a system in which graphic signs represent individual consonants and vowels, or phenomes syllable a unit of pronunciation that is organized around a vowel; it may or may not have a consonant after the vowel morphemes The smallest units of meaning in a language; meaningful parts of words; it may be a word or part of a word; it may be a single