Across
- 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
- 5. Refers to the words a reader or speaker knows the meaning of and can understand and use
- 6. Refers to the ordinary classroom that almost all children attend
- 8. The level of difficulty in a written passage
- 9. The ability to recognize words correctly when reading
- 11. A consonant sequence before or after a vowel within a syllable, such as cl, br, or st
- 12. A letter or letter combination that spells a single phoneme
- 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
- 19. “Thinking about thinking”
- 20. The ability to use two languages
- 21. The act of breaking words into syllables
- 23. Words in different languages related to the same root, e.g. education (English) and educación (Spanish)
- 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
- 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
- 29. Words that a reader recognizes automatically without having to sound them out
- 30. The sounds in spoken language
Down
- 1. The ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with proper expression and comprehension
- 2. Words from which many other words are formed
- 3. A part of a word that contains a vowel or, in spoken language, a vowel sound (e-vent, news-pa-per)
- 7. How words are related to each other and the study of how words are formed
- 10. Identifying with the cultures of two different ethnic, national, or language groups
- 13. Words from other languages that are the origin of many English words
- 14. A process in which a reader synthesizes the important ideas in a text
- 16. A word part added to the beginning of a root or base word to create a new meaning
- 17. A text used largely for informational purposes, as in research
- 18. the ability to effectively communicate or understand written thoughts and ideas through the grammatical systems, vocabularies, and written symbols of two different languages
- 22. Part of word that is "fixed to" either the beginnings of words (prefixes) or the endings of words (suffixes)
- 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
- 24. Using phonemes and graphemes to decode words
- 25. Reading, writing, and the creative and analytical acts involved in producing and comprehending texts
- 26. The act of deciphering a new word by sounding it out
- 29. A word part that is added to the end of a root word