Access Point #: LAFS.1112.L.1.AP.2b (Archived Access Point)

Essential Understandings

• 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 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.
• Use spelling features typically representative of Syllables and Affixes spellers (e.g., open/closed syllables and doubling).
• Use spelling features typically representative of Derivational Relations spellers.