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Speech to Print Workbook
Language Exercises for Teachers
Third Edition
Louisa Cook Moats, Ed.D.
Moats Associates Consulting, Inc. Sun Valley, Idaho and Bruce L. Rosow, Ed.D. Windham Central Supervisory Union Williamsville, Vermont
Contents
- About the Downloads.....ix
- About the Authors.....xi
Chapter 1 To the Student.....1
How to Use This Workbook.....2
What's the Big Idea?.....3
Preliminary Exercise: Identify Features of a Word's Linguistic Structure and Meaning.....4
Knowledge and Practice Standards for Teachers of Reading.....4
How to Use the Survey of Language Knowledge.....7
Survey of Language Knowledge.....8
Chapter 1 Answer Key.....10
Chapter 2 Phonetics.....11
- Exercise 1, Phoneme Counting.....12
- Exercise 2, Why Phonemes Are Elusive.....13
- Exercise 3, Identify the Third Phoneme.....13
- Exercise 4, Rationale for Phonetic Alphabet and Transcription.....14
- Exercise 5, Distinctive Features of Phonemes.....14
- Exercise 6, Discover the Consonant Sounds of English.....15
- Exercise 7, Exploring the Glides.....17
- Exercise 8, Partner Fun with Consonant Tiles.....18
- Exercise 9, Ident
Chapter 3 Phonology ... 37
- Exercise 21, Phoneme Sequences ... 38
- Exercise 22, Syllable Boundaries ... 39
- Exercise 23, Internal Syllable Structure ... 39
- Exercise 24, Detecting Syllable Stress ... 40
- Exercise 25, Analyzing Student Spelling Errors ... 41
- Exercise 26, Speech Production: Pronunciation of Multisyllable Words ... 41
- Exercise 27, Phonological Memory, Retrieval, and Naming ... 42
- Exercise 28, The Progression of Phoneme Awareness Development ... 43
- Exercise 29, Phoneme Awareness Tasks ... 44
- Exercise 30, Minimal Pairs and Construction of Word Chains ... 45
- Exercise 31, Phonetic Variation and Allophones ... 45
- Exercise 32, Identifying Schwa and Syllable Stress ... 46
- Exercise 33, Vowel Nasalization ... 47
Chapter 4 The Structure of English Orthography ... 69
- Exercise 38, Meaning and Sound ... 70
- Exercise 39, Sorting Words by Language of Origin ... 70
- Exercise 40, Word Construction by Morpheme ... 71
- Exercise 41, What Is a Grapheme? ... 72
- Exercise 42, Consonant Blends and Digraphs Within Syllables and Morphemes ... 73
- Exercise 43, Hard c (/k/) and Soft c (/s/), Progression of Word Study ... 74
Chapter 5 Morphology ... 105
- Introductory Self-Assessment ... 106
- Exercise 53, Why Morphology Is Important for Reading and Spelling ... 108
- Exercise 54, Categories of Morphemes ... 110
- Exercise 55, The Meaning of Compounds ... 111
- Exercise 56, Common Anglo-Saxon Prefixes and Suffixes ... 112
- Exercise 57, Latin-Based Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes ... 114
Chapter 6 Syntax ... 147
- Pretest: A Lexical Map for the Word Syntax... 148
- Exercise 69, Academic Written Language ... 148
- Exercise 70, Syntax and Written Expression: Phrase Structure and Slot Filling ... 149
Chapter 7 Semantics ... 189
- Exercise 87, The Simple View of Reading ... 190
- Exercise 88, Factors Affecting Language and Reading Comprehension ... 191
About the Authors
Louisa Cook Moats, Ed.D.
Dr. Moats has been a teacher, psychologist, researcher, graduate school faculty member, consultant, and author of many influential scientific journal articles, books, and policy papers on the topics of reading, spelling, language, and teacher preparation.
Bruce L. Rosow, Ed.D.
Dr. Rosow completed his doctoral studies in educational psychology at American International College. He began his career as an intermediate grade classroom teacher before moving into a remedial instruction role teaching word study and math.
Exercises
EXERCISE 1: Phoneme Counting
Count the speech sounds in the following words. Draw a short line for each speech sound you can identify (a “parking spot”) and, using conventional symbols as best you can, write the separate sounds in each word. The first three are done for you.
- ace /ā/ /s/
- nose /n/ /ō/ /z/
- say /s/ /ā/
- exit
- zone
- weigh
- couch
- ought
- arched
- hoax
EXERCISE 2: Why Phonemes Are Elusive
- Does the phoneme /t/ sound and feel the same or different in tag, stag, water, and passed?
- Look in a mirror or look at a partner and say the word pairs below.
This document is an excerpt from the Speech to Print Workbook Third Edition by Louisa Cook Moats, Ed.D. and Bruce Rosow, Ed.D.