TESOL Alphabet Soup

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Across
  1. 4. Facts, figures, details, quotations, or other sources of data and information that provide support for claims or an analysis and that can be evaluated by others
  2. 5. Refers to the words a reader or speaker knows the meaning of and can understand and use
  3. 6. Refers to the ordinary classroom that almost all children attend
  4. 8. The level of difficulty in a written passage
  5. 9. The ability to recognize words correctly when reading
  6. 11. A consonant sequence before or after a vowel within a syllable, such as cl, br, or st
  7. 12. A letter or letter combination that spells a single phoneme
  8. 15. The smallest meaningful unit of language. It can be a whole word or a part of a word such as a prefix or suffix
  9. 19. “Thinking about thinking”
  10. 20. The ability to use two languages
  11. 21. The act of breaking words into syllables
  12. 23. Words in different languages related to the same root, e.g. education (English) and educación (Spanish)
  13. 27. A part of writing and preparing presentations concerned chiefly with improving the clarity, organization, concision, and correctness of expression relative to task, purpose, and audience
  14. 28. A general term that refers to any skilled and complex behavior that can be performed rather easily with little attention, effort, or conscious awareness
  15. 29. Words that a reader recognizes automatically without having to sound them out
  16. 30. The sounds in spoken language
Down
  1. 1. The ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with proper expression and comprehension
  2. 2. Words from which many other words are formed
  3. 3. A part of a word that contains a vowel or, in spoken language, a vowel sound (e-vent, news-pa-per)
  4. 7. How words are related to each other and the study of how words are formed
  5. 10. Identifying with the cultures of two different ethnic, national, or language groups
  6. 13. Words from other languages that are the origin of many English words
  7. 14. A process in which a reader synthesizes the important ideas in a text
  8. 16. A word part added to the beginning of a root or base word to create a new meaning
  9. 17. A text used largely for informational purposes, as in research
  10. 18. the ability to effectively communicate or understand written thoughts and ideas through the grammatical systems, vocabularies, and written symbols of two different languages
  11. 22. Part of word that is "fixed to" either the beginnings of words (prefixes) or the endings of words (suffixes)
  12. 23. May be drawn from the immediate sentence containing the word, from text already read, from pictures accompanying the text, or from definitions, restatements, examples, or descriptions in the text
  13. 24. Using phonemes and graphemes to decode words
  14. 25. Reading, writing, and the creative and analytical acts involved in producing and comprehending texts
  15. 26. The act of deciphering a new word by sounding it out
  16. 29. A word part that is added to the end of a root word