Children's Literacy terminology

Notes on the writing/ spelling stages of children's literacy.

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  • Children's Literacy terminology
    • Stages of spelling development
      • Pre-communicative: Imitating writing through scribbles, showing an understanding that symbols have meanings and messages.
      • Semi-phonetic: Linking of letter shapes and sounds.
      • Phonetic: Understanding that all phonemes are represented through graphemes, sound-symbol connections.
      • Conventional: Knowledge of spelling system and rules, mostly correct spellings, word structures and large sight vocabulary.
    • Aspect of mispelling
      • Insertion: Adding of extra letters.
      • Omission: Leaving out letters
      • Substitution: Replacing one letter for another.
      • Transposition: Reversing the correct order of letters in words.
      • Phonetic spellings: using sounds to spell.
      • Salient (key) sounds: Only writing the key sounds in a word.
    • Katharine Perera (1984) Phases in children's writing.
      • Preparation (up to 6 years old) : Basic motor skills and principles of spelling.
      • Consolidation (7-8 years old) : Able to express what they can say in writing.
      • Differentiation (9-10 years old) : Awareness that writing is separate to speech, automatic.
      • Integration (Mid teens) : Holds a personal voice, controlled, appropriate linguistic choices being made.

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