Reading Terminology Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• 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