Stage 3. Letter name spelling is a characterized by children
aged 5 to 9 who compare and contrast short vowel word families
and focus on the sound and spelling of words containing one
short vowel, then compare across short vowel patterns (i.e., c-v-c
pattern).
Stage 4. Within-word pattern spelling is characterized by
children aged 6.5 to 12 who spell words with long vowel patterns
(CVCe, CVVC, CVV) and complex single syllable words
(CVck; CVght; and dipthongs).