Across
- 4. A skill that directly corresponds to encoding or spelling. Students hear a whole word and break the word into all the individual sounds they hear.
- 5. The ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression.
- 6. A student's bank of words that are instantly and effortlessly recognized; includes both regularly spelled and irregularly spelled. These words are a part of a student's spoken vocabulary. They are automatically read, but not necessarily spelled.
- 8. The vowel and all the sounds after in a word
- 9. The smallest unit of written language that is made up of a letter or group of letters whether it carries meaning or corresponds to a single phoneme- there are 250 in English
- 10. Words that occur most often in written English, including articles, common nouns, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions and auxiliary verbs.
- 13. The smallest unit of speech- there are 44 in English
Down
- 1. A skill that directly correlates to phonic decoding. Students hear sounds(phonemes) spoken aloud and blend the sounds to make a word.
- 2. The smallest unit of meaning in a word that cannot be further divided
- 3. understanding that spoken words are made of individual sounds called phonemes
- 7. Largest unit of language
- 11. All the sounds that come before the vowel
- 12. Visual building blocks of written word