See also antonyms, bottom-up reading approaches, cuesystems, dictionary, homonyms, language change, onomatopoeia, parts of speech, poetry, phonics, reading, slang, synonym, thesaurus, writing Word level work involves helping children to understand how...

The formation of words through the imitation of sounds from nature, e.g. cock-a-doodle-doo, meow, splash. The same sound may be represented differently in other languages, e.g. cocka-doodle-doo is kikeriki in German and cocorico in French. The natural...

n. 1. Narrowly, and perhaps most appropriately, the coining or use of a word which attempts to represent a non-linguistic sound by a combination of appropriate segments selected from the ordinary phoneme inventory of the language. Familiar English...

This is a figure of speech which refers to language where sound echoes sense, for example the ‘squelch’ of wet grass or the ‘buzz’ of a bee. Work round advertisements, strip cartoons and poetry introduces children to...

Onomatopoeia (occasionally spelled onomateopoeia or onomatopœia) is a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing, suggesting its source object, such as "click," "clang," "buzz," or animal noises such as "oink", "quack",...