Phonics Features
Phonological Awareness
Academic Language
I should know...
Spelling Sorts
Spelling Stages
100

The sound a makes in the word am.

What is a short vowel.

100

When the teacher says "Put these sounds together /c/ /a/ /t/. "Students are learning to....

What is blending?

100
If you want to help children blend phonemes use this kind of sound.

continuant sounds

100

When the teacher provides the categories for the sort it is called .....?

Closed Sort

100

In this stage students are learning to read CVC words like cat, pen, big.

Letter Name Stage

200

The a in the word car.

r controlled vowel

200

What is the easiest cutting sound for students to cut?

Words in a sentence.

200
It is easy for students to learn the sounds of letters like B, P, K because the sound of the letter is in the name of the letter.  We describe these letters as having...

Shallow Orthographic Depth

200

The purpose of this sort is to help children hear the sounds of words.

Sound Sort or Blind Sort

200
Children are in this stage until they discover alphabetic principle.

PrePhonemic Stage

300

Read the features in the word shock.

What is digraph, short vowel, complex consonant.

300

True or False 

Cutting syllables is an easy phonemic awareness task.

False

300

The Simple View of Reading can be described as a formula Reading Comprehension (RC) = ?

RC = D (decoding) X LC (listening comprehension)

300

The purpose of this kind of sort is to help early Letter Name stage students learn to read words with short vowels.

Cut and Paste Sort

300

In this stage students are mostly learning about vowels like (VCe, VCC, ar, ow, etc.)?

Within Word Stage

400

Spell the plural form of the word /vas/ (with a short vowel).

vasses

400

How many phonemes in the word church?

What is 3

400

The following endings (-ing, -ed, 's, s', s, es) are known as?

Inflected Endings

400

To make a sort easier you could....

increase the sound contrast between categories

OR....

400

The following words would be fair for students in this stage with, chip, pick, car.

Within Word

500

Spell how you would add est to the word balf.

Balfest

500

The hardest phonological task and unit of sound would be?

Substituting phonemes.
500

Teapot starts with what kind of syllable?

Open Syllable

500

This sort helps students practice reading the phonics feature in real text (like a poem or decodable text)?

Word Hunt

500

A commonly occurring word that does not follow the rules of phonics would be known as....

High Frequency Irregular Word

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