Transitional and Intermediate stage of learners

Transitional and Intermediate stage of learners

1. Success

   • Spell single-syllable words accurately when reading at their instructional level.
   • Read and reread familiar text from several sources
   • Context is key
   • Benefit from repeated exposure to words
   • Use sophisticated language in daily interactions
   • Writing becomes more fluent
     • Know how to automatically spell words
   • Appropriate spelling is determined by meaning

2. Struggles

   • er, or, and ar
   • Inconsistencies in affixes and suffixes
   • Need to learn the strategy of breaking words into parts
   • Use dictionary
     • Look up the base word
   • Confusions with ambiguous vowel patters
   • Lack knowledge about the doubling rule
   • Open syllables
   • Closed syllables
   • Syllable Juncture
   • Compound words

3. Transitional Learners

4. Intermediate Learners

5. Syllables and Affixes

6. Words within Pattern

7. Struggles

   • Long vowel patterns
     • Must choose from a variety of patterns
   • r- influenced words
   • Confuses homophones
   • Can be taught syllables and affixes
   • Begin including silent letters
   • Homographs
   • r-controlled
   • ELLS may spell the sounds they hear in English with the letter-sound correspondences they know from their first language

8. Success

   • Usually get most of the word correct
   • Read with greater fluency
   • Many words stored in memory for automatic retrieval
   • Work on longer pieces over many days
     • Expected to revise their written work and to edit for accuracy of spelling and punctuation
   • Able to spell the vast majority of the words they need for writing
     • Likely to hear "voice" in their writing
   • Know how to spell single-syllable words correctly

9. Rather than teaching rules, use word sort

10. Teach Focus, organization, support, style, and conventions

    • Conferences
    • Use Graphic Organizers
    • Text Evidence
    • Use Figurative Language
      • Use computers
    • Summarzing
    • Write in complex Sentences
      • Revise and Edit
    • Vary sentence lenghts
    • Pre-Write
    • Set goals for writing
    • Write about their lives