Feature Guide for Primary Spelling Inventory End of Year Guided Reading Level ______

Directions: Check the features that are present in the student’s spelling. In the bottom row, total features used correctly. Check the spelling stage that summarizes the student’s development. Begin instruction at that stage with a focus on the types of features where the student missed two or more features in a column.

Student’s Name ______Teacher ______Grade ______Date ______

SPELLING EMERGENT LETTER NAME-ALHPABETIC WRITTEN WORD PATTERN SYLLABLES & AFFIXES STAGES LATE EARLY MIDDLE LATE EARLY MIDDLE LATE EARLY MIDDLE Other Words Beginning Final Short Consonant Consonant Long Vowel Vowel Inflected Feature Spelled Features Consonants Consonants Vowels Digraphs Blends Patterns Patterns Endings Points Correctly 1. fan f n a 2. pet p t e 3. dig d g i 4. rob r b o 5. hope h p o-e 6. wait w t ai SPELLING STAGES 7. gun g m u 8. sled e sl □ EARLY □ MIDDLE □ LATE 9. stick i st □ LETTER NAME-ALPHABETIC 10. shine sh i-e □ WITHIN WORD-PATTERN 11. dream dr ea □ SYLLABLES & AFFIXES 12. blade bl a-e □ DERIVATIONAL RELATIONS 13. coach ch oa 14. fright fr igh Words Spelled Correctly: /26 15. chewing ch Featureew Points: ing /56 16. crawl cr Total:aw /82 17. wishes sh es 18. thorn th or 19. shouted sh ou ed 20. spoil sp oi 21. growl ow 22. third th ir 23. camped ed 24. tries ies 25. clapping pping 26. riding ding Cells with 2 or more (7) (7) (7) (7) (7) (7) (7) (7) (56) (26) errors Name______Date______

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