TEACHER COPY · answer key
Spelling test · Week 3
Grade 2 · days 11–15 · 10 words · 2 sentences
Sounds this week: /p/ p, /r/ r, /v/ v, /j/ y, /z/ z
- pad/p/ p L9
- pal/p/ p L9
- pan/p/ p L9
- cab L10
- bad L10
- bag L10
- back L11
- hack L11
- lack L11
- cat L12
Sentences
Listen, then write the whole sentence.
- Jack has a sack.
- Pam has a fat cat.
How to give it
Say the word once, clearly, at normal speed. Use it in a sentence if a child asks. Say it a second time. Then move on — do not sound it out, and do not let the class chorus it back, because a child who is copying the sound of the room is not being tested.
Mark the SOUNDS, not the word. A child who writes kat for cat has every sound right and one spelling choice wrong, and that is a completely different problem from a child who writes cot. Give the mark for the sounds and note the spelling choice separately — otherwise the record cannot tell you which of the two you are looking at, and they need opposite teaching.
What to do with the result. A sound missed by most of the class goes back into the mouth at the front of Monday — it was not taught yet, whatever the pacing says. A sound missed by two or three children is a small group, not a re-teach. This is the only phonics record that is kept; the daily whiteboard check is deliberately not written down.