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The main purpose of the DSA (Developmental Spelling Inventory) is to determine a child’s developmental spelling stage. The screening tool consists of twenty-five words that become progressively more difficult. The words are designed to show students’ knowledge of key spelling features that relate to the different spelling stages.
The spelling stages are as follows: Early Letter Name (letter sounds), Letter Name (LN), Within Word (WW), and Syllable Juncture (SJ). Students scoring within the 11-21 range are considered instructional within that stage. The results of the features are then analyzed to guide instruction. Once a student masters a stage of development scoring (22-25), they will move into the next developmental stage. Students should show progress in their level from fall to spring.
Refrenced: DSA: Understanding the Developmental Spelling Assessment (rcps.us)
Terminology:
Phonemes: the smallest unit of sound in our spoken language
Grapheme: A written letter or group of letters that represent a sound
Onset: An initial consonant or consonant cluster.
Rime: the vowel or vowel and consonant that follows the onset.
Diagraph: two letters that represent one speech sound.
Vowel Diagraph: two letters that together make a vowel sound.
Schwa: The vowel sound sometimes heard in unstressed Syllables and that most often sounds like /uh/ of the short /u/ sound
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