Correct Letter Sequences
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Hi everyone. This video is going to be about how to score a spelling CBM. Spelling CBMs are scored with correct letter sequencing. And that's just like a sequence before and after each letter. The reason we do this versus a whole word, just getting one point for a whole word versus cross letter sequencing is that it's more sensitive to change. So when we are scoring them, we can see whether the student is getting sounds correctly, middle sounds correctly are end sounds correctly. And then we can also be looking at, you know, it gives them a chance to get some points even if they don't get the whole word correct. So on this side is our spelling list, and this is how many correct letter sequencing sequences are available for each word. So for the word abundant, there is a carrot here. We place carrots before and after, and that's how we count. We count those to get the correct letter sequencing. Those have been the amount of points. So carrot here cared here, cured here, here, here, here, here, here, and at the end. So you do want it the beginning to show that they got the first letters, the first letter correct, and then they didn't place any extra letters at the beginning. And then you do one of the end to show that they got the end one correct and they didn't add any extra letters. Hope that makes sense. So let's do a couple of these together. If you want to pause the video real quick, you could write these down. And then try to score them yourself, or we can just zoom together whenever you want. So pause the video now if you want. Or I'm going to move forward now. So for the word abundant, this student made up student. What I got this one correctly because they got the a correct, they got the a, B correct, BU, UN, and D it should be DA and they wrote DE so they do not get a carrot there. EN it should be a in so they would not get a carrot there. And then NT is correct, and the last letter is T so they would get a carrot at the end. So this student would have got one, two, three, four, 5, 6, 7 correct letter sequences. Where the possible was 9 correct. Let's do the next one. Analysis. So a one character for a, AN, they would not get the next one because it should be NA put NL, they would not get the next one because it's LI. There should be LY, they would not get the next one because okay, so this is actually a controversial issue because there is an IS here. And they have an IS here. But is it in the right place instead of the Y S? So the rule is, is that you just need to be consistent. So if you're going to give them credit for any correct sequencing, then you've got to do it throughout the whole story. I would not give them credit here because I think that this I is representing this Y instead of this I here. So I would not give them credit here. So, and then nothing else would be correct here, so they would just get two correct letter sequencing of the 9 possible points. Next one, so they get it for the C, the a, the L, LE, EN, and D, DA, AR, so they got all crackers that get the 9 correct letter sequences. So yeah, CLS. So we got them all prepped there. Cemetery. They got the C right, the CE, the EM, the ME ET, the TA is not correct, so they would not get the care there, the AR is not correct. So they would not get the carrot there. The RY is correct, and the Y is correct. So one, two, three, four, 5, 6, 7, correct letter sequences. For cordial, they got a point for C, CO. O R R D, there is no I present, so they would not get this one. And then the AL is correct. So they wouldn't get it there, and one for L so one, two, three, four, 5, 6, correct letter sequences for this one. So for endeavor, they would get one carrot for the E, one carrot for the E in, and D, DE, they did not put the a so for the EV, they would not get a point. B, E, it's supposed to be BO, so they would not get a point. ER, they would not get a point because it's not OR, and then they would get one for the R the end for putting the correct letter at the end. So one, two, three, four, 5, yes, 5. So exercise. They would not get the starting carrot because they did not put the E they would get one for XE, ER, RC. So for all of the rest of the word is correct, so they would get the rest of the carrots. So that would be 7 correct letter sequences. Okay, so I want to go over a couple special rules. And of course, the rules are available to be downloaded somewhere on this page. I'm not sure where right now, but there are somewhere on there as a PDF. So for a word, if you gave the student the word April and you said in the sentence, next month is April. And the lower case APR IO. Hopefully you can see that they would not get credit for this a here. Because it is not capitalized. Therefore, the sequence between a and P would not be correct either because this is not capitalized. So. For this one, the PR are IL, they would get four correct letter sequences. So they would miss out on these two here because the a is not capitalized. So if it is a proper now, they do need to capitalize it. For things that have punctuation, like O clock, like it is 6 o'clock. The apostrophe here is still considered a sequence in it. So the student would get one point here for the O one here between the O and the apostrophe. And then another one here for the apostrophe in the C to show that it is a correct sequence. So one, two, three, four, 5, 6, 7, 8. So 8 correct letter sequences. Once again, all the rules and some examples are available on the PDF attached, so I hope this was helpful.