Spelling Assessment
This is an assessment teachers use to measure students' spelling knowledge and identify areas for improvement
Spelling Assessment
How students learn and understand spelling patterns and the relationships between letters and sounds to spell words correctly
Orthography
Children who are beginning to explore writing by drawing pictures, scribbling
Exploring Writers
Knowing something about the topic before writing
Ideas and Content
The writing rules students must learn and apply to communicate their ideas clearly and correctly
Conventions
This assessment evaluates students' spelling abilities in relation to grade-level expectations
Gentry Spelling Grade-Level Test
Meaningful word parts, such as prefixes and suffixes, that are added to a base word to create a new word or change its meaning or part of speech
Derivational Morphemes
Children who are beginning to understand that written symbols represent words and ideas. They may use letters, drawings, and invented spelling.
Emerging Writers
The writing has a beginning, middle, and end, including the main ideas and making clear transitions from one point to another.
Organization
Specific spelling lessons designed to teach students particular spelling patterns, sounds, and rules based on their learning needs
Focused Spelling Instruction
A list of words containing targeted spelling features that is used for assessment
Spelling Features List
How students take in and incorporate spelling rules, word patterns, and language concepts into their existing knowledge so they can apply them when reading and writing
Assimilated
Children who are learning to organize their thoughts into sentences and use spelling, punctuation, and capitalization with increasing accuracy.
Developing Writers
The individual personality and expression a writer brings to their writing
Voice
Lists of writing skills and strategies used to monitor students’ development
Writing Checklist
A way of examining students’ spelling to determine their current developmental stage and learning needs
Developmental Spelling Analysis
The process of learning how to spell words by understanding letters, sounds, spelling patterns, and word structures
Spelling Development
Writers who can communicate their ideas clearly through organized writing and use spelling, grammar, and writing conventions more consistently
Fluent/Experienced Writers
The selection of specific and meaningful words to communicate ideas clearly
Word Choice
The different stages children progress through as they learn how letters and sounds work together to spell words
Developmental Spelling Stages
An assessment used to examine what students know about words, spelling patterns, and relationships between letters and sounds
Word Knowledge Inventory
The improvement children make as they learn to spell words more accurately and understand spelling patterns
Spelling Progress
The alphabetic stage of writing when children use scribbles, lines, and shapes instead of actual letters
Nonalphabetic Stage
How smoothly sentences flow and how easily a reader can read the writing aloud
Sentence Fluency