Access Point #: LAFS.4.L.1.AP.2c (Archived Access Point)

Essential Understandings

(Across Text Types)

• Use spelling features typically representative of Letter Name spellers (e.g., beginning consonants, ending consonants, preconsonatal nasals, medial vowels and affricates).
• Use spelling features typically representative of Within Word spellers (i.e., long-vowel patterns [e.g., ai, ue, oa and ee], long-vowel patterns with silent e marker, ambiguous-vowel patterns [e.g., ou, ow and oi], and r-controlled vowels).
• Locate word in dictionary or other resource (e.g., word wall and Dictionary.com) to check spelling accuracy.