Transitional & Intermediate writing

Transitional & Intermediate writing

1. Students can read and write a variety of genres more fluently

2. Can hear voice in their writing

3. writing is quite labored

4. Can read two and three syllable words when there is contextual support

5. able to work on longer pieces over many days

6. Write Single syllable words accurately

7. Move from full alphabetic phase to the consolidated alphabetic phase

8. Begin to recognize patterns and chunks to analyze unfamiliar words

9. Automatically know how to spell many words

10. can write with great speed and lessconscious attention

11. Can concentrate on ideas

12. start reading orally then become independent readers

13. Sight words begin to grow and student starts to decode words

14. Can discuss what they read

15. Exprees their ideas with greater sophistication

16. Found mostly in 2nd, 3rd, & early 4th grade

17. Begin using dictionaries on a regular basis to check word meaning

18. Are more confident & fluent in their writing

19. can revise their written work and can edit for spelling and punctuation

20. vocabulary is learned while reading

21. Learn how words combine (morphemic analysis)

22. Mostly found in 3rd to grade 8th

23. Have unabridged and online dictionaries for writing & understanding

24. 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

25. 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

26. Actively involved in exploration of words

27. Spell known sight words correctly

28. EARLY - Errors when adding inflectional endings & are ready to learn "double, drop, or nothing"

29. MIDDLE - Errors with syllable junctures within words & with unaccented final syllables

30. LATE - they spell most words correctly & study prefixes and derivational suffixes