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If your learner's answers mostly don't match words in the "yes" column, and particularly if they are mixing up vowels, they need to work on words from the whole of Level 2. Click here for the Level 2 workbook, which targets all these patterns. If they just make mistakes on the spellings with links below, click on the relevant links for wordlists to practice.
Qu	Yes	Maybe	No
1	Two wecks, whecks	wecs, weks	wex
2	Two kengs		cengs, kengz
3	A rax, wrax, rhax		racks, racs, raks
4	A nact		nakt, nacked, nakked, nacced
5	Two chells, chelles	chels	chelz
6	A hulch
7	A pelf,pelf
8	A yant
9	A vond		vonned
10	A lalb
11	A pength	pencth
12	A bilth, bylth	bhilth
13	A tust		tussed
14	A fosp, phosp
15	A duld		dulled
16	A cadth, kadth, khadth
17	A golve, gholve		golv
18	A binch, bynch		bintch
19	A thulm
20	A dilk	dilc	dilck
21	A panth
22	A shemp
23	A sisk, sisc, sisque
24	A relt, wrelt, rhelt	relte	relled
25	A jonk	gonk, janc
26	A milp
27	A keft		keffed, ceft, ceffed
28	She tobs, tobbs		tobz. tobbz
29	He is ept, epped	eapt	eped
30	She zuffs	zufs, zoughs
31	He gets gopped		gopt, goped
32	She gets mubbed		mubd, mubed
33	They are thutted		thuted
34	Their stuff gets nidded		nided
35	They're zogged		zoged
36	They're vuffed	vuft, voughed	vufed
37	They're sossed	sost	sosed
38	They're ficked	fict, fikt	fiked, ficed
39	They're shuzzed		shuzed
40	They're chashed		chasht
41	They're jatched	jached	jacht
42	They're yammed		yamed, yamd
43	They're henned		hened, hend
44	They're wunged		wungd
45	They're all rilled, wrilled, rhilled	rild	riled

 

2 responses to “Level 2 answer key”

1. Aimee says:

   August 1, 2015 at 3:18 pm

   Hi Alison – 

   Just a little note: I've done this level with a few kids and myself (!) and I find 'rax' is usually spelt 'racks' because it confuses the listener to have a single after a pattern of two (two wecks, two kengs then a rax). I tend to place it later in the test to avoid this confusion as children seem to think there is a pattern and the third should follow the same pattern as the first two. Or I draw a little monster and say "this is a rax, can you write 'rax'" so that it is really clear to them that we are talking about one, not two.

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   • alison says:

     August 3, 2015 at 10:39 am

     Thanks, yes, I’ve found a similar thing, which I overcome by holding out my hands to show two objects for the plural, and then only one for the singular, and then I say “don’t write racks like dish-racks or luggage racks, it’s only one thing”. Perhaps I should make that explicit on the test, I guess I also use the test to show parents that we have a particular way of spelling plurals, but that sort of overlapping-purpose stuff usually means you don’t do either thing well, and I should stick to a single purpose. Thanks for the useful feedback, when I get a moment to rework I will think of how best to amend (by shifting “rax” to another spot or by making the instructions clearer).
      

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