This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Phonics & Reading has 17 clues. Answers range from 4 to 21 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in spoken words
SOUND the smallest parts of sound in a spoken word that make a difference in the word’s meaning.
WRITTEN the letters that represent those sounds in written language
the understanding that there is a predictable relationship between phonemes and graphemes
includes identifying and manipulating larger parts of spoken language,
a word part that contains a vowel or, in spoken language, a vowel sound
the initial consonant sound of a syllable (sw for swim)
part of a syllable that contains the vowel and all that follows it (-ag for bag, -im for swim)
working with phonemes in words
recognize individual sounds in a word (first sound in van? /v/)
recognize the same sounds in different words
recognize the word in a set of three or four words that has the “odd” sound
listen to a sequence of separately spoken phonemes, and then combine the phonemes to form a word.
break a word into its separate sounds, saying each sound as they tap out or count it.
recognize the word that remains when a phoneme is removed from another word
make a new word by adding a phoneme to an existing word.
substitute one phoneme for another to make a new word.