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Curriculum content descriptions

Understand how to use letter-sound relationships and less common letter patterns to spell words (ACELA1485)

Elaborations
  • using sound and visual spelling strategies to explore less common letter patterns after a short vowel, for example words that end in ‘dge’ such as ‘badge’, ‘edge’, ‘fridge’, ‘dodge’ and ‘smudge’
  • using sound and visual spelling strategies to spell words with three-letter blends, for example ‘str-ip’
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Phonics,  Phonemes,  Compound words,  Morphemes,  Spelling

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