Example
An assessment such as PALS or DIBELS.
What is a Benchmark?
Syllables and affixes spellers usually have mastered the spelling patterns that are necessary to spell most single-syllable words correctly.
What is Syllables and Affixes Stage?
Writing Checklist
A writing checklist is a tool that is used by a student during the writing process such as pre-writing, editing, or revising written work.
Written in horizontal lines but without spacing.
What is Early Emergent Stage?
The Six Traits of writing are Voice, Ideas, Presentation, Conventions, Organization, Word Choice, and Sentence Fluency.
What is the Six Traits Model?
Writing Rubric
A writing rubric allows you, as a teacher, to help students improve their writing skills by determining what areas they need help in.
Typical letter-name spellings are HIT for hot and BAT for bent.
What is Letter-Name Stage?
A list is divided into four achievement levels. The words on each level are divided into groups, each subgroup investigating the student's treatment of a specific word feature such as beginning sound, consonant blend, long vowel pattern, etc.
What is a Spelling Features List?
Writing Sample
The primary purpose is to help teachers become experts in analyzing student writing. Furthermore, it helps teachers figure out how, to begin with the end in mind.
Contains no letters or letter-like forms, but is typically made up of lines of squiggles that look like writing to the child.
What is Non-Alphabetic Stage?
This stage is typical of second and third-graders. The Within-word pattern stage is when students develop strategies for spelling whole syllables and word parts.
What is a Within-word Pattern Stage?
Later Emergent Stage
At this stage children begin to try out this concept by representing one or more sounds, usually the initial and sometimes the final sound, with letters that have that sound.
Muscle, exhibit, office/official, define/definition.
What is the Derivational Constancy Stage?
[BONUS] Why is monitoring students’ Spelling Progress important?
Learning to spell contributes to learning how to read!
Word Knowledge Inventory
This is a spelling test that consists of 25 words, five groups of five words. The words are arranged from easy to hard.