Stages of Literacy Development & Disabilities
Assessment within Literacy Stages
Fish in a Tree
100

Children in this stage use scribbles to communicate.

Emergent Literacy Stage

100
Students in this literacy stage can talk about a book before they can read it.

Emergent literacy stage

100

What reading disability does Ally have?

Dyslexia

200

What are the two different categories of reading? 

Learning to read & reading to learn

200

what are the four stages of literacy?

Emergent, early developing, developing, and strategic

200

What did Ally's substitute teacher do that made Ally mad?

Read a teacher note about her in front of the whole class.

300

What grades should students be in if they are in the strategic literacy stage?

5th grade - 8th grade

300

A spelling assessment would occur in which literacy stage?

Early developing

400
What disability can negatively affect receptive and expressive language?

Language processing disorder

400

A Cloze test is given in which literacy stage?

Developing

500

Children with this disability struggle to process language-based skills.

Dyslexia

500

What is beneficial about story retelling?

Understanding of a text is communicated through story retelling,

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