Of course, you will see alot of variability with individual children. I've seen four year olds write in stage 3 spelling. I am wondering how to implement that information JRGentry - Annette, yes documenting the letters helps you know how the child is coming along with recognizing the letters of the alphabet. Leslie has alot of letter knowledge for November of K year. K teachers model writing, use alot of language experience approaches.
Kids are allow to approximate writing.
Ks and beginning ones need to know that they aren't expected to spell all words correctly. A Developmental Word Study , Part 1 and Part II has joined us. Michael wrote this at the end of his K year. JRGentry - Sareena, a child at stage two has phoenimic awareness. You could help chldren at stage two by doing phoenimic awareness activities and by modeling stage two spelling.