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

Baltimore • London • Sydney

Excerpted from Speech to Print Workbook Third Edition by Louisa Cook Moats, Ed.D. and Bruce Rosow, Ed.D.

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, Identify First and Last Consonant Phonemes in Words.....18

Exercise 10, Analyze Student Consonant Spelling Errors.....19

Exercise 11, Reproduce the Vowels of American English.....20

EXERCISE 1: Phoneme Counting

Count the speech sounds in the following words. Draw a short line for each speech sound you can identify and, using conventional symbols as best you can, write the separate sounds in each word.

• ace: /ā/ /s/
• nose: /n/ /ō/ /z/
• say: /s/ /ā/

Highlight or underline the sounds or sequences of sounds that you are unsure of. Where do you need clarification?

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. Does the phoneme /k/ sound and feel the same or different in cat, scat, pinky, and tack?
3. Look in a mirror and say the word pairs below.

EXERCISE 3: Identify the Third Phoneme

MUSIC: /m/y/u/ SQUEEZE: /s/k/w/

EXERCISE 4: Rationale for Phonetic Alphabet and Transcription

English orthography does not have a one-to-one correspondence system among sounds and letters.

• cape, kick, chord, quit, ax, antique

EXERCISE 5: Distinctive Features of Phonemes

1. Circle the speech sounds that you can say continuously until you run out of breath.
2. Circle the sounds that send air through the nose and resonate in the nasal cavity.
3. Circle the sounds that are unvoiced.

EXERCISE 6: Discover the Consonant Sounds of English

Chapter 2 Answer Key

EXERCISE 1, Phoneme Counting

• ace: /a/ /s/
• nose: /n/ /o/ /z/
• say: /s/ /a/

About the Authors

Louisa Cook Moats, Ed.D., President, Moats Associates Consulting, Inc.

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., Special Educator

Dr. Rosow completed his doctoral studies in educational psychology at American International College. He has been a teacher, a coauthor of a word study curriculum, and has provided remedial instruction to struggling middle and high school readers.

Phonetics

Exercise 1, Phoneme Counting ... 12
Exercise 11, Reproduce the Vowels of American English ... 20

Appendix A Phoneme Tile Templates ... 239

Appendix B Developmental Spelling Inventories ... 243

Excerpted from Speech to Print Workbook Third Edition by Louisa Cook Moats, Ed.D. and Bruce L. Rosow, Ed.D.