Across
- 2. Vowel and consonants that follow the onset in a word
- 4. The ability to blend sounds together to create a word
- 6. The ability to break words down into individual sounds
- 8. The ability to hear and manipulate individual sounds in words
- 9. The smallest unit of meaning in a word
- 11. A tool that is used to show children what written language looks like
- 12. first step to emergent literacy
- 14. A tool used for helping children to learn about the sounds and letters in words. They help children become aware of the sequence of sounds in words
- 15. The smallest part of written language that represents a phoneme in the spelling of a word
- 16. Initial consonant or consonant cluster of a word
- 17. Skills Literacy step in which the child develops the ability to tell a story or describe a sequence of events
- 18. Refers to sound and letter relationships. It connects sounds and written letters
- 19. When words start with the same sound
- 21. Sound in the absence of letters. Hearing syllables, onset and rimes, individual sounds, and initial sounds
- 22. Words that have the same ending sound
Down
- 1. Occurs when children understand that the letters are unique from each other and begin to recognize different letters and sounds
- 3. The broad skill that includes identifying and manipulating units of oral language parts such as words, syllables, and onsets and rimes
- 5. Splitting a word into different segments of sound
- 6. The ability to manipulate words and sounds by taking away or adding letters/sounds
- 7. a child’s knowledge of reading and writing skills before they learn how to read and write words
- 10. The study of speech sounds
- 12. a step in which the child learns how to handle a book and recognize the differences between letters and words
- 13. Significant predictor to a child’s overall academic achievement
- 20. Smallest unit of sound in speech