Reading Terminology Crossword Puzzle

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PHONICS : teaching and learning the relationship between phonemes and graphemes (the sounds in English, and the letters that represent them)
PHONEME : the smallest unit of sound that adds to a word’s meaning
GRAPHEME : a letter or group of letters that represents a sound or phoneme
DECODING : reading by ‘sounding out’; voicing each phoneme in a word, then blending the sounds to read the whole word
ENCODING : spelling by ‘sounding out’; breaking a word into individual phonemes (segmenting) and writing the corresponding grapheme in order to spell a word
SYNTAX : the order of words within a sentence, and how this affects meaning
TRIGRAPH : a group of three letters that represents one sound, e.g. ‘igh’ like in ‘high’, ‘tch’ like in ‘match’.
INFERENCING : making a guess or figuring out something that is not explicitly stated within a text, based on the information given; ‘reading between the lines’
FLUENCY : the ability to read texts with speed and accuracy, achieved through high level of word recognition and comprehension
DIGRAPH : two letters working together to make one sound, e.g. ‘sh’ like in ‘shop’ or ‘oo’ like in ‘boot’
MORPHEME : the smallest unit of language that has its own meaning
MORPHOLOGY : the study of morphemes; the study of words and their parts
SYLLABLE : a unit of sound containing only one vowel sound
SEGMENTING : breaking a word up into its individual phonemes
BLENDING : combining the individual sounds or phonemes to form whole words
COMPREHENSION : the ability to understand and analyse the meaning of texts

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phonics : teaching and learning the relationship between phonemes and graphemes (the sounds in english, and the letters that represent them)
phoneme : the smallest unit of sound that adds to a word’s meaning
grapheme : a letter or group of letters that represents a sound or phoneme
decoding : reading by ‘sounding out’; voicing each phoneme in a word, then blending the sounds to read the whole word
encoding : spelling by ‘sounding out’; breaking a word into individual phonemes (segmenting) and writing the corresponding grapheme in order to spell a word
syntax : the order of words within a sentence, and how this affects meaning
trigraph : a group of three letters that represents one sound, e.g. ‘igh’ like in ‘high’, ‘tch’ like in ‘match’.
inferencing : making a guess or figuring out something that is not explicitly stated within a text, based on the information given; ‘reading between the lines’
fluency : the ability to read texts with speed and accuracy, achieved through high level of word recognition and comprehension
digraph : two letters working together to make one sound, e.g. ‘sh’ like in ‘shop’ or ‘oo’ like in ‘boot’
morpheme : the smallest unit of language that has its own meaning
morphology : the study of morphemes; the study of words and their parts
syllable : a unit of sound containing only one vowel sound
segmenting : breaking a word up into its individual phonemes
blending : combining the individual sounds or phonemes to form whole words
comprehension : the ability to understand and analyse the meaning of texts