TEACHER COPY · answer key
Spelling test · Week 12
Grade 2 · days 56–60 · 10 words · 2 sentences
Sounds this week: /ɑ/ a as in car, /iː/ long e
- as/ɑ/ a as in car L85
- ma/ɑ/ a as in car L85
- and/ɑ/ a as in car L85
- bee/iː/ long e L87
- deed/iː/ long e L87
- deem/iː/ long e L87
- can L74
- bake L74
- cake L74
- aid L75
Sentences
Listen, then write the whole sentence.
- Jane can bake a cake.
- When will Kate wake up and take a bath?
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.