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English / Year 2 / Language / Phonics and word knowledge

Curriculum content descriptions

Use most letter-sound matches including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, letter clusters and silent letters when reading and writing words of one or more syllable (ACELA1824)

Elaborations
  • recognising when some letters are silent, for example ‘knife’ and ‘thumb’
  • providing the sound for less common letter-sound matches, for example ‘ight’ and using them in writing
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Vowel length,  Digraphs,  Phonemes

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