TEACHER COPY · answer key
Spelling test · Week 14
Grade 2 · days 66–70 · 10 words · 2 sentences
Sounds this week: /oʊ/ long o, /uː/ oo, /ʊ/ oo, /aʊ/ ow, /ɔɪ/ oi, /juː/ long u
- robe/oʊ/ long o L103
- hole/oʊ/ long o L103
- bone/oʊ/ long o L103
- good/uː/ oo L109
- food/uː/ oo L109
- coo/uː/ oo L109
- ow/aʊ/ ow L112
- cow/aʊ/ ow L112
- ouch/aʊ/ ow L112
- boy/ɔɪ/ oi L114
Sentences
Listen, then write the whole sentence.
- I bought candy and gum.
- Dad taught a tennis lesson.
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.