Spelling/Reading Skills

Skills needed to read and spell successfully pertain to the written word, therefore knowledge of letters is needed in addition to knowledge of phonological structure.
Spelling/reading skills include:

• Understanding the alphabetic principle.
• Mastering the regular grapheme/phoneme relationships
• Mastering spelling rules or spelling patterns
• Memorizing highly irregular words.
• Decoding
• Whole-word recognition
• Background knowledge/general world knowledge