Which of the following provides the best rationale for incorporating spelling instruction into a first

A second-grade teacher administers spelling inventories periodically to help assess students' phonics knowledge. The following shows one student's performance on a spelling inventory at the beginning of the school year and again several months later.

DICTATED WORDS STUDENT SPELLING
set set set set
star ster star star
drive driv drive drive
peach pech peach peche
turn tarn turn turn
Join joyn join joyn

The student's performance on the second administration of the spelling inventory indicates that the student made the most improvement in which of the following areas?

A. initial and final consonants
B. short vowels and diphthongs
C. digraphs and blends
D. long and r-controlled vowels

Which spelling concept is usually taught in third grade?

The 3rd grade Common Core standards includes position-based spelling, such as "'i' before 'e' except after 'c'" as one of the rules students should know this year. Using letter tiles is a fun and effective way for students to remember the order of the letters in a word.

Which of the following phonemic awareness skills best helps beginning readers?

Segmenting the first sound in a spoken word is one of the first phonemic awareness skills to develop and therefore B is an effective informal procedure for assessing phonemic awareness in the beginning stages.

Which of the following Graphemes would be most appropriate to teach first?

So, which graphemes are taught first? Graphemes that should be taught first are the most common single-letter graphemes (t; a; s; n; p and i) and some digraph (two-letter) graphemes (ch; sh; th; wh and ck).

Which of the following would be most appropriate to strengthen automatic word recognition skills?

look up unfamiliar words in the dictionary. A is the best answer since automatic word recognition (automaticity) is the quick recognition of a word without consciously applying the decoding process. Applying consistent phonics generalizations to develop this skill is appropriate for first grade.