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Emergent Reader
3 years old: Book orientation skills, "Reading familiar books," knew the difference between writing and drawing -
Letter Name-Alphabetic Stage
Preschool: Representing phonemes with letters, recognize some high frequency words, read word by word, write left to right -
Within-Word Pattern Stage
Kindergarten: identifying common word patterns (long vowel patterns), using capitalization and punctuation, rereading my writing -
Syllables and Affixes Stage
Early-Mid 1st grade: exploring relationships between root words and affixes, identify most words automatically, multi paragraph writing, spelling most words correctly, preferred to read silently -
Derivational Relations Stage
Late 1st to early 2nd: exploring word relationships, writing with purpose (taking the audience into consideration), using some sophisticated punctuation, used a variety of developed comprehension strategies