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LETRS Volume 1 Unit 1-4 EXAM AND PRACTICE EXAM NEWEST ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+ academic language - CORRECT ANSWER written or spoken language that is more stylistically formal than spoken conversational language; lan...

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LETRS Volume 1 Unit 1-4 EXAM AND PRACTICE
EXAM NEWEST ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+




academic language - CORRECT ANSWER written or spoken
language that is more stylistically formal than spoken conversational
language; language that is most often used in academic discourse or
text.


adjective - CORRECT ANSWER A part of speech that describes
a noun or person (e.g., windy, blue).


adverb - CORRECT ANSWER A part of speech that describes a
verd, adjective, or adverb (e.g., sadly, crookedly).


affricate - CORRECT ANSWER A speech sound with features of
both a fricative and a stop; in English, /ch/ and /j/ are ________.


allophones - CORRECT ANSWER Slight alterations to
pronunciation of phonemes resulting from phonemes overlapping with
one another in a spoken word; these variations of pronunciation are
predictable and unconscious, as most speakers make them.


allophonic variation - CORRECT ANSWER The slightly different
pronunciation of a phoneme, depending on its place in a word; for
example, automatic nasalizing of a vowel before a nasal consonant.


alphabetic principle - CORRECT ANSWER The concept that
letters are used to represent individual phonemes in the spoken word;
insight into this principle is critical for learning to read and spell.

,antonym - CORRECT ANSWER A word that overlaps with
another word, but which has the opposite meaning.


automaticity - CORRECT ANSWER The ability to read quickly
and accurately without conscious effort.


background knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER Preexisting
knowledge of facts and ideas necessary to make inferences.


base words - CORRECT ANSWER Words that can stand on their
own, or can serve as part of another word, as a free morpheme.


benchmark - CORRECT ANSWER A standard or a set of
standards used as a threshold for predicting future risk for reading
difficulty.


blend - CORRECT ANSWER Two or three graphemes, each one
representing a phoneme (e.g., the s-c-r in scrape); a ________ is not one
sound, but two or three adjacent consonants before or after a vowel in
a syllable.


characters - CORRECT ANSWER The protagonist or who the
story is about, plus optional secondary people or animals whose roles
within the story help the plot to unfold.


clause - CORRECT ANSWER A group of words that has a
subject and a predicate and functions as a unit.


closed syllable - CORRECT ANSWER A syllable with a short
vowel spelled with a single vowel letter and ending in one or more
consonants (e.g., hat, kit-ten).


coarticulation - CORRECT ANSWER Occurs when phonemes
are spoken together to produce syllables or words and the features of
these phonemes are affected by the speech sounds that precede or
follow them.

, code switching - CORRECT ANSWER The conscious effort to
write and/or speak in a certain way, depending on the social context
and/or whether the language is spoken or writter.


cognate - CORRECT ANSWER A word in one language that
shares a common ancestor and common meanings with a word in
another language. Many Spanish words, such as "problema" or
"diagrama," are ________ that are built around the same Latin and Greek
prefixes, suffixes, or roots that English words also employ.


coherence - CORRECT ANSWER The property of sticking
together into a consistent whole; can refer to a quality of text or to the
representation of meaning in a person's mind.


cohesive devices - CORRECT ANSWER The specific linguistic
devices by which a text hangs together, such as pronoun references,
repeated phrases, or substitution or one phrase for another.


comparative adjective - CORRECT ANSWER An adjective that
compares two nouns or pronouns (e.g., Sarah is taller than Monique;
the red flower is more colorful than the pink one).


complementary antonym - CORRECT ANSWER An antonym
that is mutually exclusive from its opposite term.


complex sentence - CORRECT ANSWER A complex sentence
has an independent clause and a dependent clause; the dependent
clause only makes sense with the independent clause in the sentence
(e.g., "When she came into the room, the class settled down.").


composition - CORRECT ANSWER The skill of formulating
ideas into words, incorporating subskills such as knowledge of the
topic, vocabulary, and Standard English grammar and usage.

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