1. Your child is spelling at the Letter Name Alphabetic Spelling Stage. Continue to work on short vowel sounds and hearing beginning, middle and ending sounds in words. Happy spelling! CVC= consonant, vowel, consonant words

2. Your child is spelling at the Letter Name Alphabetic Spelling Stage. Continue to work on digraphs (th, sh, ch) and blends in words (example: BLack, beST, DRive, eND). Happy spelling! CCVC= consonant, consonant, vowel, consonant words CVCC= consonant, vowel, consonant, consonant words

3. Your child is spelling at the Early Within Word Pattern Spelling Stage. Continue to work on hearing the difference between short and long vowel words (example: kit vs. kite; cop vs. cope). Spellers “best bet” with a long vowel word is to add a bossy e to the end of a word to make a long vowel pattern (the e bosses the other vowel to make it say its name). Happy spelling! CVCe= consonant, vowel, consonant, bossy e words

4. Your child is spelling at the Middle Within Word Pattern Spelling Stage. Continue to work on using the appropriate long vowel spelling pattern in words. Every vowel has three ways to make the long vowel sound- CVCe or VV at the beginning or middle of a word and ___VV at the end. Happy spelling! CVCe= consonant, vowel, consonant, bossy e (the e bosses the other vowel to say its name) CVVC= consonant, vowel, vowel, consonant (when there are two vowels together, the first vowel goes talking and the second one goes walking- you don’t hear it) CVV= consonant, vowel, vowel (y or w have tails and “monkeys have tails so tails go at the end”)

5. Your child is spelling at the Late Within Word Pattern Spelling Stage. Continue to work on hearing the dipthong in words and use the appropriate spelling pattern (there are two ways to make dipthong sounds- the way that has a tail with a “y” or “w” goes at the end because “monkeys have tails and tails go at the end”). Happy spelling!