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The proper way to use a written
system of language, including proper spelling. |
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| The structure of words and their parts |
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| The smallest unit of sound with meaning |
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| A morpheme that is attached to the stem of a word, creating an entirely new word. There are two types of affixes: prefixes and suffixes. |
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| A word or group of words that cannot be interpreted literally. I.e. “easy as pie”. |
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| A word that sounds like another word but has a different spelling and meaning. |
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Picture Writing or
Drawing Stage |
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| Stage when students begin to express their thoughts via drawings and pictures. These drawings may not even be recognizable, but they nevertheless represent the critical first stage of writing |
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| The second stage of writing development, when children begin to draw recognizable shapes and have verbal stories to go with them. |
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| Stage when students begin to string letters together with their pictures. This may include the student’s own name. The words may undecipherable at this point. |
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Invented Spelling,
Semi-phonetic, or Early Spelling |
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| Stage when students begin to use letters to match sounds. They may only use the beginning letter to represent a word. |
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| Stage when students are beginning to write words based on the way that they sound. The stories that students write may now be a few sentences long and may include punctuation throughout. |
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| Stage when students begin to write words with correct beginning and ending sounds. |
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| Conventional Writing Stage |
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| Stage when students are able to spell most words correctly, even if they spell some longer words phonetically. At this point students also begin to use punctuation correctly, as well as proper capitalization. |
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| Semi-phonetic(Early Spelling) |
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