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I was most intrigued by the way kindergarteners spell, I know quite a few people who partake in inventive spelling, and an even bigger group that spell things phonetically. Which I cam to understand has to do with a students phonetic awareness.

I found this part of one of the articles to be most intriguing, since I'm prow hand written assignments. "Research also bears out a strong relationship between spelling and writing: Writers who must think too hard about how to spell use up valuable cognitive resources needed for higher level aspects of composition."

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The key takeaway I got from the connection between spelling and writing is that one cannot work without the other. Each grade progresses and dives deeper into being able to spell correctly while writing without a standard spelling test. The writing samples for each grade showed that students were able to draw a picture of a story but had the kids focus on key elements of spelling and writing to portray a clear, thinking skill.

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My spelling and writing take away was the development in kindergarten and first grade. Kindergarten students can spell three phoneme shot vowel (CVC) words including hop, man, and fun. First grade student can spell short vowel words (CVC) and short vowel words with consonant clusters. Stick, flat, pond, and thump are short vowel words with consonant clusters. Student can spell common irregular words including the, what, was, and were. Student's development from kindergarten to first grade is the foundation for moving forward.

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In Kindergarten children will learn some letter-sound matches and start to read, they also begin to experiment with writing. I love the examples provided in the slides which shows us how they start developing skills in writing and reading.

Then in first and second grade students move to use a more complex structure of the meaning of the words in writing and reading.

Also I learn about the spelling progression which means that children progress through certain stages of spelling development. This information allows us to compel development through their instruction.For example when students are inventing spellings it refers when children attempts to use their best judgments about spelling such a muny (money) cood (could). Here is when the teacher can provide support to help the student to progress.

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Spelling is just a part of writing much like the 5 pillars of reading. Writing also has word choice, sentence fluency, organization, focus, and grammar. Errors in spelling also clue the teacher into which phonemic awareness or phonics that they may need support in.

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Through drawings made by the students we can see how they begin to develop the ability to express themselves through writing; and how writing is related to reading? I will say this: the more a child reads, the more writing skills he will gain, since the reading experience teaches him how to become familiar with punctuation and new words.

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I really enjoyed seeing writing examples from each grade so I could truly see what students will do and see their progression. This reminded me how important it is to look at where they came from and where they are going. This is something that gets overlooked or ignored but it really is so important. We can see that in the examples. If they are not at the right point when they leave kindergarten then how can we hope to help them if we do not take the time to see this?

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Spelling and writing are directly influenced by students' reading ability. Everything is systematic, and the progression can be seen in their writing abilities-spaces between words, punctuation, and grouping sentences are all indicators that students are progressing.

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I really liked the section on "Analyzing Student Spelling Errors" the article "Spelling in Practice..." Where it labels the types of spelling errors and what they mean. For example, "shert" (for shirt) is a simple orthographic pattern error that can be corrected with instruction and/or familiarity with spelling patterns, whereas "lup" (instead of lump) may indicate a need to do more work on phonemic awareness. I hadn't thought about how important an analysis of spelling can be and how an examination of those details can show what a class or student needs to work on.

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We liked the progress that we saw within the grade levels. With kindergarten we liked how they started with pictures and moved on to writing sentences with mixed capitals and lower case letters. Students within the samples show that they are becoming more familiar with sight words. In first grade we noticed some inventive spelling with students who clearly knew some of the rules of spelling and were attempting to figure out unfamiliar spelling.
The blurds on the writing we found were helpful to understand the progression. The feedback on the bottom of the pages fed us forward and helped us understand what the students needed to do next.

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Take aways from Michelle, Alanna, Annabel

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Take aways from Michelle, Alanna, Annabel

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Starting in K grade students have a clear idea of what they want to say but when writing sentences it is not clear.
Students have a concept around blending words although they are not spelled correctly like, "KRAB"  Blending of word is "KR."

1st graders can write a simple paragraph.  Having a title and introduction sentence.  Getting help with putting words in sequence will be beneficial.  "Graphic organizers, sentence structures is ideal in this grade.

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Kindergarteners will use mostly pictures to depict their thinking, and then use some of the letters and simple words they know to tell their story.

1st graders can use transitions and have a clear pattern to their writing. They may need a word chart to refer back to for more complex, frequent words.

2nd grade begins to write in a paragraph form, using some ending punctuation. They may need a graphic organizer for their flow of thought. At this time, students will still only have some of the spelling correct because they are still learning.

Practice is key for anything and the more students write, the better they will become with spelling and writing formations. The more students read, they will also become more familiar with many words and how they are spelled.