Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Emergent Stage
(Ages 1-7 and/or Pre-kindergarten to middle first grade)
Characteristics
The student conveys his/her message by scribbling, drawing shapes, writing
letter-like forms (mock letters), and/or random strings of letters/numbers. In
some cases, one letter represents an entire word or the most salient sound of a
word. The child generally lacks knowledge of the alphabet, lacks left-to-right
directionality in writing, and lacks concept of word (one-to-one matching of
spoken and written words). At this stage of development, writing only conveys
meaning for the student who wrote it.
Characteristics
Students begin to understand letter-sound correspondences (the notion that
individual sounds in spoken words are assigned to letters). At this stage,
students are becoming phonemic spellers. For example, they may use single
letters to represent sounds, words, and syllables (e.g., U for you). They may spell
every sound in a word with one letter and omit silent letters. Students may not
include spaces between all words.
Characteristics
Students at this stage of development spell most single syllable short-vowel
words correctly, along with most initial consonant digraphs and blends. At this
stage of development, they begin using long vowel markers in their spelling
(e.g., gaim for game or rede for read). They begin reading with greater speed,
fluency, and can read silently. They can write extended texts and can begin
revising and editing.