TEACHER COPY · answer key
Spelling test · Week 9
Grade 2 · days 41–45 · 10 words · 2 sentences
- raft L48
- gift L48
- left L48
- ask L49
- asp L49
- cast L49
- bulb L50
- held L50
- bald L50
- elm L51
Sentences
Listen, then write the whole sentence.
- Bill got a raft as a gift.
- He left his raft at the pond.
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.