JRGentry - Hello everybody. Thank you for joining our chat. JRGentry - Kathleen, let's begin by looking at benchmarks for developmental stages of spelling. JRGentry - Let's look at stage One, precommunicative spelling. Here is a sample written by Leslie in November of her K year.
Someone give it a try.
JRGentry - Great Amy. JRGentry - Great, Sue. But it tells us alot about what leslie knows about the alphabet. The critical aspect of Stage one spelling is that children use letters but almost randomly. JRGentry - the letters don't represent sounds.