Transitional and Intermediate Writers

Transitional
1. Students become more fluent writers and can spell many words automatically
2. Teacher makes sure that vocabulary growth is happening.
3. Requires a higher degree of abstract thinking.
4. Students begin to learn the meanings behind the spelling patterns, thus being able to use more complex words in their writing.
5. Can begin writing some high-frequency words if consistently working with them during all aspects of literacy.
6. When teaching ELL's in the transitional stage, teachers need to know something about the student's native language to guide comparisons and understand the student's difficulties to aide in their writing.
7. Students are able to write with ease and at greater speed.
8. Students have more time to work on ideas and written expression.
9. Background knowledge creates opportunities for complex story lines or informational pieces.
10. Students in the transitional stage are using but confusing vowel patterns.
Intermediate
1. Students produce more confident, fluent writing, and can work on longer pieces.
2. Student's own reading becomes the source of new vocabulary that they can begin using in their writing. Teachers still need to teach specific vocabulary for content writing.
3. While learning compound words, students are learning to combine in different ways, syllables, and the spellings of many high-frequency, high-utility words enriching their writing.
4. Students in this stage can spell most single-syllable and high-frequency words, allowing them to focus attention on the meaning they are trying to convey instead of spelling words.
5. ELL's in the intermediate stage will need extra support on vocabulary development for many words before being able to use them in their writing.
6. Audience awareness is developing in this stage, and you can hear "voice" in their writing.
7. Students can be expected to revise and edit their written pieces.
8. Students in the intermediate stage are using but confusing some complex patterns, accented and unaccented syllables, and affixes

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