Literacy
Across
- 8. words that join together other words or groups of words
- 9. something (as a story) that is told or written
- 11. the process or activity of writing or naming the letters of a word
- 12. a written or printed paper giving information about or proof of something
- 13. a book or other written or printed work, regarded in terms of its content rather than its physical form.
- 14. a word that can modify or describe a verb, adjective, another adverb, or entire sentence
- 15. the process of looking at written symbols and letters and understanding the meaning of them
- 17. awareness the ability to identify and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words
- 19. the set of rules that explain how words are used in a language through both writing and speaking
Down
- 1. the words children know and can use to communicate about the world around them
- 2. a word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun
- 3. a discourse given before an audience or class especially for instruction
- 4. matching the sounds of spoken English with individual letters or groups of letters
- 5. a system of communication used by humans
- 6. understanding text: spoken, written and/or visual
- 7. a conversation between two or more persons
- 9. a word that represents a person, thing, concept, or place
- 10. a person's ability to read a book or other text correctly, quickly, and with expression
- 16. any conventional system of marks or signs that represents the utterances of a language
- 17. a word that can replace a noun in a sentence
- 18. a word that describes what the subject of a sentence is doing