For the first writing sample I believe this student is in stage four of spelling development. This sample is about a trip to the circus with her godmother and she talks about her experience. This fourth grade writing sample has about 1-2 spelling errors throughout the entire thing. What really surprised me about this was her ability to spell ponies, but misspelling moving (she spelled it 'moveing'). The students have been working with inflectional endings so that may be why she understood removing the -y and adding -ies. However, for the word moving, im not sure why she could remember the -y rule but not remember to remove the -e before adding -ing. In this stage inflectional endings are being taught constantly so she is possibly starting to grasp the concept now.
After reading writing sample two I realized that this student is at the stage three of spelling development. It is quite a long journal entry about his plans for the rest of the day once he gets out of school. The first thing I noticed was that there are a lot of spelling errors, and these errors are because of missing letters. Christmas is missing the 't', hockey is missing the 'e', before is missing the 'e', etc. In stage three students are confusing spelling patters and I believe that he forgets that some words have silent letters or a silent ending. If you sound out the words he misspelled (christmas, hockey, before) you will notice that the letter he missed is a silent letter. I believe this is common for early spellers. This may be the only thing stopping him from moving into stage four in spelling development.
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