Stages/Learners
Emergent/Letter Name Alphabetic
Within Word/Syllables & Affixes
Derivational Relations
Wonderful Words
100

The only stage that has the same name for spelling and development level.

What is emergent?

100

Happy hippos hop on Harry is an example of this

What is alliteration?

100

This symbol indicates a long vowel.

What is a macron?

100

This is the study of the development and changes of the meanings of speech forms.

What is semantics?

100

to add on to a word

What is an affix?

200

the advanced learners are at this stage.

What is derivational relations stage?

200

This symbol indicates a small vowel.

What is a breve?

200

When adding a suffix  to a word that ends with a y preceded by a vowel, this happens to the y.

What is the y does not change?

200

These languages are often studied at this stage?

What is Greek and/or Latin?

200

-s, -es, or -ed on words

What are inflectional endings?

300

This is the stage when learners are focused on learning long vowels.

What is within word stage?

300

This syllable pattern is closed.

What is CVC?

300

This syllable pattern is open.

What is cv?

300

This is an example: sign and signal

What is consonant alternations?

300

A term that describes spelling instruction.

What is orthography?

400

Most students stage in this stage the longest period of time.

What is the within word stage?

400

An error made by speller is when the word FAN as FNA.

What is a kinetic reversal?

400

this is the smallest unit of sound

What is a phoneme?

400

This is the examination of the morphemic structure of words.

What is morphology?

400

a list of words displayed in a classroom

What is a word bank?

500

The word sheep has this feature in it.

What is a digraph?

500

This spelling stage can generally determine beginning and final consonant sounds.

What is the emergent stage?

500

When students who understand that spoken words are decomposed into phonemes, and that the letters of written words represent the phonemes in spoken words, what do they have?

They have alphabetic principle.

500

When phonics is taught implicitly in the context of authentic reading activities.

What is intrinsic phonics?

500

a phrase, construction, or expression that is understood in a given language

What is an idiom?