1. Pre-Alphabetic
2. Partial Alphabetic
3. Full Alphabetic
4. Consolidated Alphabetic
5. Automatic Alphabetic

are the 5 stages of what?

• Usually Pre-K
• The child relies on visual clues to help them read words such as:

Golden Arch logo = McDonalds

This is what stage of developing word analysis skills?

• Child associate letters with sound
• The alphabetic principle is in this stage of developing word analysis

• usually occurs in 4th or 5th grade
• Larger letter patterns such as suffixes like   -ed, -ing, -est are used in this stage of developing word analysis skills

• Context cludes
• Phonetic analysis
• Structural Analysis

1. Picture Clues
2. Semantic Clues
3. Syntactic Clues

are all examples of...

• Use of root words, affixes (prefix & suffix) word ending, or base
• Involves looking at prefixes to determine meaning of words
• Using a portion of a word to identify it

are all examples of...

• Words most frequently used in written text
• Examples are: the, to, and, he, a, I

• Words with no regular decoding and causes incorrect pronunciation
• Examples are: some, have, does, once, give, said, mother, been

Three consonant sounds blended together

Examples: scr, str, thr

Two letters that stand for one sound

Examples: ch, sh, ph, kn, th

Two letters that represent different sounds

Examples: bl, cl, pl, gr,st

• Used as a reference to confirm spelling, meaning and pronunciations of words
• Used at all grade levels
• Includes guide words, part of speech, and has more than one meaning

• Found at the back of a book
• Includes terms within the book that is newly introduced and unfamiliar
• Only has words that are related to the text