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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

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

Chapter 3 Phonology ... 37

Chapter 4 The Structure of English Orthography ... 69

Chapter 5 Morphology ... 105

Chapter 6 Syntax ... 147

Chapter 7 Semantics ... 189


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.

  1. ace /ā/ /s/
  2. nose /n/ /ō/ /z/
  3. say /s/ /ā/
  4. exit
  5. zone
  6. weigh
  7. couch
  8. ought
  9. arched
  10. hoax

EXERCISE 2: Why Phonemes Are Elusive

  1. Does the phoneme /t/ sound and feel the same or different in tag, stag, water, and passed?
  2. 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.