Analysing Early Writing: Spelling, Yrs F-2

About this teaching resource

This resource, Analysing Early Writing: Spelling, Yrs F-2, will help you use your students' knowledge of the alphabet to analyse their early writing phase.

The phases are: 

Phase 0: Non-alphabetic writing. No alphabetic letters are present—only scribbling or letter-like forms

Phase 1: Pre-alphabetic writing. Letters are represented but they don’t match sounds. Eagle is written with random letters with no sound-to-letter correspondences. The alphabetic principle is not in evidence

Phase 2: Partial alphabetic writing. Eagle may be written as E with partial soundto-letter representation.

Phase 3: Full alphabetic writing. All sounds in eagle are represented usually with one letter for each sound as in EGL where L carries the vowel sound.

Phase 4: Consolidated/automatic alphabetic writing. Eagle is spelled as EGUL where the first syllable is spelled with E for /ē/ and the second syllable is spelled as a consolidated phonics chunk such as GUL for /gəl/.

Resources:

• Go to this 'Analysing a Student's Writing' resource on Teachific: https://www.teachific.com.au/view/1913/analysing-a-students-writing-to-check-their-spelling-knowledge--
• Complete 'Analysing a Student's Writing' Teachific Course (76 min) here: https://www.teachific.com.au/course/b35615cd-c903-5e7a-8444-e852670ae053/preview Receive a certificate with PD hours on it.
• Listen to the 'Early Writing' podcast Part 1, Part 2. Read the podcast transcript here.