Stages of Spelling Development
Reading to students while pointing to the words, sharing alphabet books, naming objects, and singing songs, while reading the words from a poster or whiteboard are examples of instructional practices used during this stage of spelling development.
What is the emergent stage?
The smallest unit of sound.
What is a phoneme?
Two connecting consonants that make a unique sound separately.
What is a consonant cluster?
One way to keep track of students' needs, using the Common Core State Standards to assess your students throughout the school year.
What is using a checklist?
Children understand that sounds are represented by letters during this stage.
What is the letter name-alphabetic stage?
A written representation of a phoneme.
What is a grapheme?
Two connecting consonants with one sound.
What is a consonant digraph?
A computer-based assessment that is applicable for grades 3 through 12 which assesses students on sight words, letter recognition, and nonword decoding.
What is the Scholastic Phonics Inventory (SPI)?
This stage uses word-family flipbooks and word-family word walls.
What is the within-word pattern stage?
Two letters that represent one sound.
What is a digraph?
Slight variations of each phoneme.
What is an allophone?
An assessment that evaluates students' word-writing ability where the teacher assesses how many one-syllable and multi-syllable words students have written.
What is the CAFE Word-Writing Assessment?
Students learn about closed-syllable words with double consonants and open syllables in this stage.
What is the syllable and affixes stage?
The conscious understanding of how words can be broken into smaller units of meaning.
What is morphological awareness?
Two vowels placed together in a word that produce a single glided sound.
What is a vowel diphthong?
Used to assess a student's ability to recognize consonant sounds, rhyming words, consonant digraphs, long-vowel sounds, words with CVC patterns, consonant blends, other vowel sounds, and syllables in words.
What is the Phonics Mastery Survey?
In this stage, students learn that some base words change when they are used as a different part of one word.
What is the derivational relations stage?
The relationship between letters and their sound.
What is the graphophonic system?
Two vowels placed together, but only a single sound of one of the vowels is heard.
What is a vowel digraph?
Contains lists that progress from easy words with CVC and CVCe patterns to more difficult multi-syllabic words that are intended as individual tests.
What are spelling inventories?