Access Point #: LAFS.8.L.1.AP.2c (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 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).
• 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.
• Understand common spelling errors in writing.
• Use resources (e.g., predictive text, spell check, dictionary and peer/teacher).