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Curriculum content descriptions

Understand how to spell one and two syllable words with common letter patterns (ACELA1778)

Elaborations
  • writing one-syllable words containing known blends, for example bl and st
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Sight words,  Phonemes

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