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.
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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.

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