Child uses both phonetic and sight strategies to spell words. Child writes some sentences related to topic and some not related to topic. Child writes short, simple sentences that are not in a pattern form. Child writes sentences of more than 4 words following a pattern. Level 8 Child writes the start of a story.
Child begins to use more conventional spelling.
At least two thoughts follow one another in logical sequence. Child writes sentences with random ideas related to prompt. I hope this helps. Here are my daily record sheets. Net sm .