According to Ehri's stages of word recognition, Sarah is in which stage?

In Ehri's stages of word recognition, when a student is identified as being in the Pre-Alphabetic stage, it indicates that they have not yet developed an understanding of the alphabet and letter-sound relationships. This stage is characterized by reliance on visual cues and memorization of words based on their visual features rather than through phonetic decoding. For example, a child in this stage might recognize a word by its shape, such as the way it looks, rather than understanding the individual letters or sounds that make it up.

At this point, Sarah would likely be able to recognize some common words without being able to read them structurally, showing a limited awareness of the alphabetic principles that come in the subsequent stages. As students advance beyond this stage, they begin to develop an understanding of phonemic awareness and the relationships between letters and sounds, leading them into the Alphabetic stage, which involves more intentional decoding strategies.