Which of the following tasks would best provide practice for learning letter formation in kindergarten? {Ans: tracing a model following numbered arrows on lined paper}Which of the following is not one of the strands in Scarborough's Reading Rope? {Ans: Guided reading}Which word group might a teacher include in a lesson focused on reviewing consonant digraphs? {Ans: thorn, show, chase}A first-grade teacher has posted a word wall using alphabetical order to list the high-frequency words the students must learn. For example, under A are the words aunt, along, an, add, April, and above. How could the teacher best ensure that students will recognize and spell words that begin with a? {Ans: Teach systematic decoding of sound-symbol correspondences beginning with short a}What is true about the relationship between reading and spelling? {Ans: Spelling is generally harder than reading because the exact letters of the word must be recalled.}Which word group might a teacher include in a lesson focused on identification of consonant blends? {Ans: blink, frog, twist}