TEACHER COPY · answer key
Spelling quiz · Week 8
Grade K · days 36–40 · 6 words
Sounds this week: /æ/ short a, /ɛ/ short e, /ɪ/ short i, /ɒ/ short o, /ʌ/ short u
- bad/æ/ short a L15
- bed/æ/ short a L15
- bag/æ/ short a L15
- egg/ɛ/ short e L16
- ell/ɛ/ short e L16
- beck/ɛ/ short e L16
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.