Stages of Spelling Development

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Stages of Spelling Development
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How do children learn how to spell?

• Concepts of print
• Letter-sound correspondence (match)
• Spelling within a one-syllable word
• Build words with multi-syllables
• Word meanings related to spelling

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How do children learn how to spell?
INVENTED SPELLING

• Concepts of print
• Letter-sound correspondence
• Spelling within a word
• Build words with multi-syllables
• Word meanings

• 1. EmergentScribblesgtletters directionality
• 2. Letter-Name Alphabetic principle, consonants
  / short vowels /cons.blends
• 3. Within-word patterns long vowel, bossy-r,
  vowel combinations
• 4. Syllables Affixes (Word Endings) plurals,
  tenses
• 5. Derivational Relations relationship btw
  spelling meaning, various forms

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Spelling lt gt Reading

• 1. Emergent Scribbles gtletters directionality
• 2. Letter-Name Alphabetic principle, consonants
  / short vowels /cons.blends
• 3. Within-word patterns long vowel, bossy-r,
  vowel combinations
• 4. Syllables Affixes (Word Endings) plurals,
  tenses
• 5. Derivational Relations relationship btw
  spelling meaning, various forms

Emergent Reader PreK-K
Beginning Reader K-1
Transitional Reader Gr 2 3
Advanced Reader Gr. 4
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A clarification

• Letter-Name Alphabetic Spellers tend to spell by
  the NAME of the letter (Y why YN when UZ
  use) and they often use the uppercase letter
• Early (mostly letter names)
• Middle gt Late (combine names sounds)
• Next steps Focus on the SOUND of the letter and
  how SOUNDS get combined to form words

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Can you match them up?

• personable, personality
• kit (kite)
• runing (running)
• lOEOOllOAOo
• TD (today)
• frend (friend)

Derivational
Late Letter Name
Syllables/Affixes
Emergent
Early Letter Name
Within-Word
What should you teach next? See also p. 178-179
in Tompkins for other assessments (PALS,
Qualitative Spelling Inventory)
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How do you know what spelling stage they are in?

• Look at what patterns they are USING
• Then look at what patterns they are CONFUSING
• The things they are confusing indicates their
  developmental stage and what you should teach
  next

LETS TRY IT OUT
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Stages of Spelling Development

• Stage 1 Emergent Spelling

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Stages of Spelling Development

• Stage 2 Letter Name Alphabetic Spelling
• Early Letter Name Middle-Late Letter Name

Within-word confusions
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Stages of Spelling Development

• Stage 3 Within Word Pattern Spelling
• Early Within Word

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Stages of Spelling Development

• Stage 4 Syllables and Affixes Spelling

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Stages of Spelling Development

• Stage 5 Derivational Relations Spelling

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Steps in Determining Students Stage of Spelling
Development

• 1. Choose writing samples
• 2. Identify misspelled words
• 3. Make a spelling analysis chart
• 4. Categorize students misspellings
• 5. Tally the errors
• 6. Identify topics for instruction

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Spelling Development in Within Word Pattern
Stage(Transitional Readers)

• Vowel patterns (long, r-controlled,
  w-controlled, l-controlled)
• Dipthongs (Whiners oo, oy/oi, ow/ou aw/au)
• Complex Consonants (ck, ch/tch, kn, dge/ge, squ,
  scr/spr/str)
• Pacing Chart WTW p. 216-217

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Today a person at home called us and said that a
bomb was in our school and made us go outside and
made us wait a half of an hour and it made us
waste our time on learning. The end. (Written by
Marc in Grade 1)
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Letter-Name Alphabetic
Within-Word
Syllables Affixes
Other Issues
Conclusion
Goals for Word Study Instruction 1. 2. 3. 4.

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Letter Formation b for d z for s
Today a person at home called us and said that a
bomb was in our school and made us go outside and
made us wait a half of an hour and it made us
waste our time on learning. The end.
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• Conclusion Marc spelled 56 of the words
  correctly and most of his spelling errors were in
  the letter-name and within-word patterns stages,
  which is typical of first graders spelling.
• What goals for word study instruction?
• Letter d (vs. b) and letter s (vs. z)
• High-frequency words
• CVCe vowel pattern
• ed past tense ending

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Homework

• Thursday
• Bring 3 copies of completed inventory to class
  (FIRST name only)
• Text-Based Discussion on Ruby the Copycat is due