APP Levelled Statements Guidance
Guidance for the interpretation of APP levelled statements for Writing AF8 : use correct spellings – Levels 1-5.
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AF8:
use correct spelling
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
Glossary
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.
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
Double consonants in prefixes – Double consonants after Latin prefixes beginning <a-, coe-, i-, o-, su->: addict, address
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.
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lexical words): these include nouns, verbs, adjectives, and most adverbs,
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
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
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
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
Content/lexical words - Words which are not function words are called content words (or
lexical words): these include nouns, verbs, adjectives, and most adverbs,
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.
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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.
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.
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