APP Levelled Statements Guidance

Guidance for the interpretation of APP levelled statements for Writing AF8 : use correct spellings Levels 1-5. Thanks to Devon Education Service.

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Level 5 Across a range of writing correct spelling of grammatical function words almost all inflected words most derivational suffixes and prefixes most content/lexical words likely errors occasional phonetically plausible spelling of unstressed syllables in content words double consonants in prefixes

Grammatical function word Function words (or grammatical words) are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning, but instead serve to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker. e.g. the, a, he, him, she, her, are, is, well. however, yes, OK etc. Inflected endings - A change to the end of a word to indicate tense, number or other grammatical features. ed/ing/s/es/est.er etc Derivational suffixes and prefixes give related words different meanings and/or show that they belong to different word classes e.g.Suffixes prince/princess, happy/happiness (adjective and noun), spoon/spoonful (noun and adjective), normal/normalise (adjective and verb) etc. e.g. Prefixes re-write, ex-teacher, anti-slavery, unimportant etc Content/lexical words - Words which are not function words are called content words (or lexical words): these include nouns, verbs, adjectives, and most adverbs, Unstressed syllables in content words- Content words are words representing an action, object, attribute, or state. The grammatical categories for content words are: nouns, main verbs, adverbs, adjectives and question words. Double consonants in prefixes Double consonants after Latin prefixes beginning : addict, address

Level 4 Across a range of writing correct spelling of most common grammatical function words, including adverbs with -ly formation regularly formed content/lexical words, including those with multiple morphemes most past and present tense inflections, plurals likely errors homophones of some common grammatical function words occasional phonetically plausible spelling in content/lexical words

Grammatical function word Function words (or grammatical words) are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning, but instead serve to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker. e.g. the, a, he, him, she, her, are, is, well. however, yes, OK etc. Morpheme -The smallest unit of meaning. Suffixes and prefixes are morphemes. Single morpheme - house Two morphemes House/s, hous/ing, house/d Three or more morphemes/ multiple morpheme -House/keep/ing, un/happi/ness Homophones words which have the same sound as another, but different meaning or different spelling e.g. read/reed, pair/pare, write/right/rite etc. Content/lexical words - Words which are not function words are called content words (or

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APP Levelled Statements Guidance

Guidance for the interpretation of APP levelled statements for Writing AF8 : use correct spellings Levels 1-5. Thanks to Devon Education Service.

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lexical words): these include nouns, verbs, adjectives, and most adverbs, Inflected endings - A change to the end of a word to indicate tense, number or other grammatical features. ed/ing/s/es/est.er/ly etc

Level 3 In most writing correct spelling of some common grammatical function words common content/lexical words with more than one morpheme, including compound words likely errors some inflected endings, e.g. past tense, comparatives, adverbs some phonetically plausible attempts at content/lexical words

Grammatical function word Function words (or grammatical words) are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning, but instead serve to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker. E.g. the, a, he, him, she, her, are, is, well. however, yes, OK etc. Content/lexical words - Words which are not function words are called content words (or lexical words): these include nouns, verbs, adjectives, and most adverbs, Morpheme -The smallest unit of meaning. Suffixes and prefixes are morphemes. Single morpheme - house Two morphemes - Houses, housing, housed Three or more morphemes/ multiple morpheme -House/keep/ing, un/happi/ness Inflected endings - A change to the end of a word to indicate tense, number or other grammatical features. ed/ing/s/es/est.er/ly etc Content/lexical words - Words which are not function words are called content words (or lexical words): these include nouns, verbs, adjectives, and most adverbs,

Level 2 In some forms of writing usually correct spelling of high frequency grammatical function words common single morpheme content/lexical words likely errors inflected endings, e.g. past tense, plurals, adverbs phonetic attempts at vowel digraphs

Grammatical function word Function words (or grammatical words) are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning, but instead serve to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker. E.g. the, a, he, him, she, her, are, is, well. however, yes, OK etc. Content/lexical words - Words which are not function words are called content words (or lexical words): these include nouns, verbs, adjectives, and most adverbs, Morpheme -The smallest unit of meaning. Suffixes and prefixes are morphemes. Single morpheme - house Inflected endings - A change to the end of a word to indicate tense, number or other grammatical features. ed/ing/s/es/est.er/ly etc Digraph - Two letters representing one phoneme th, ch, Vowel digraph - ar, ai, ae, ee etc.

APP Levelled Statements Guidance

Guidance for the interpretation of APP levelled statements for Writing AF8 : use correct spellings Levels 1-5. Thanks to Devon Education Service.

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Level 1 In some writing, usually with support usually correct spelling of - high frequency single morpheme words - non-inflected grammatical words likely errors - word division - phonetically plausible attempts at single and multiple morpheme words - use of letter names to approximate syllables and words

Morpheme -The smallest unit of meaning. Suffixes and prefixes are morphemes. Single morpheme - house Two morphemes - Houses, housing, housed Three or more morphemes/ multiple morpheme -House/keep/ing, un/happi/ness Word division - When it is necessary to divide words, always break them between syllables. Remember, however, that not all syllable breaks are acceptable end-of-line breaks. In general, divide words according to pronunciation.