Spelling assessments serves two purposes: determining spelling stage and instructional approaches.
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Ques. 2When administering a developmental spelling test, the nature of the spelling errors is more important than the actual number of words spelled correctly.
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Ques. 3Assessment and analysis of students' spelling errors drives spelling instruction.
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Ques. 4Students usually benefit from a single weekly spelling strategy when learning challenging words.
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Ques. 5In general it is appropriate to assign first- and second-grade students ten to twenty spelling words per week.
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Ques. 6Students in the middle grades expand their purposes for reading from a focus on gaining basic competence to reading for pleasure, reading to learn new material, and reading ________.
A) to develop analytical and critical thinking
B) to develop the ability to read textbooks
C) to develop basic competence in reading fiction
D) to develop critical literary opinions
Ques. 7English spelling has three regularly occurring features: sound, structure, and meaning.
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Ques. 8Individualized spelling instruction places fewer demands on the teacher than traditional spelling programs do.
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Ques. 9Students who have mastered most common spelling patterns and are beginning to spell words that have pronunciation changes generally fall into the meaning/derivational spelling stage.
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Ques. 10Explicit instructional strategies can be used to teach spelling patterns such as fast, faster, fastest or lean, leaner, leanest.
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Ques. 11Children pass through the spelling stages in a consistent, linear, one-way manner.
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Ques. 12Young children discover regular sound features in their spoken language long before they come to school.
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Ques. 13English spelling lacks common consistencies and regular patterns.
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Ques. 14Spelling strengthens phonemic awareness by enabling students to recognize common spelling patterns.
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