Across
- 1. awareness - the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds—phonemes—in spoken words.
- 2. awareness - a broad term that includes phonemic awareness. In addition to phonemes, phonological awareness activities can involve work with rhymes, words, syllables, and onsets and rimes.
- 5. - the initial consonant(s) sound of a syllable. (the onset of bag is b-)
- 6. - the part of a syllable that contains the vowel and all that follows it. (the rime of bag is -ag)
- 7. - a word part that contains a vowel or, in spoken language, a vowel sound. (news-pa-per)
Down
- 1. - the smallest part of spoken language that makes a difference in the meaning of words. (/s/ /t/ /o/ /p/)
- 3. - the smallest part of written language that represents a phoneme in the spelling of a word. (ch, sh, th)
- 4. - the understanding that there is a predictable relationship between phonemes and graphemes.