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: 5,000 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