Students can read and write a variety of genres more fluently
Can hear voice in their writing
writing is quite labored
Can read two and three syllable words when there is contextual support
able to work on longer pieces over many days
Write Single syllable words accurately
Move from full alphabetic phase to the consolidated alphabetic phase
Begin to recognize patterns and chunks to analyze unfamiliar words
Automatically know how to spell many words
can write with great speed and lessconscious attention
Can concentrate on ideas
start reading orally then become independent readers
Sight words begin to grow and student starts to decode words
Can discuss what they read
Exprees their ideas with greater sophistication
Found mostly in 2nd, 3rd, & early 4th grade
Begin using dictionaries on a regular basis to check word meaning
Are more confident & fluent in their writing
can revise their written work and can edit for spelling and punctuation
vocabulary is learned while reading
Learn how words combine (morphemic analysis)
Mostly found in 3rd to grade 8th
Have unabridged and online dictionaries for writing & understanding
EARLY - Blends, digraphs, short
vowels, vowel patters in one
syllable words, complex consonant
units in one syllable words,
MIDDLE - doubling & e-drop with
inflectional endings, syllable
juncture: open & closed, LATE -
vowel patterens in accented
syllables, unaccented final
syllables
EARLY- Consonants, blends, digraphs,
preconsonantal nasals, short vowels in CVC words,
r - influenced cvc MIDDLE - common long vowel
patterns LATE- long vowel patterens in one
syllable words, r influenced vowel patterens
Actively involved in exploration of words
Spell known sight words correctly
EARLY - Errors when adding inflectional endings & are ready to learn "double, drop, or nothing"
MIDDLE - Errors with syllable junctures within words & with unaccented final syllables
LATE - they spell most words correctly & study prefixes and derivational suffixes