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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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20 direct matches to ACELA1824

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Q&A session: Making a start with a phonics progression and phonological awareness instruction

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This recording of a 30-minute Q&A session supports schools in choosing and following a systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) progression, including phonological and phonemic awareness instruction.

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Phonics lesson planner example and template

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This Word document can be used to plan for the specific words and sentences teachers will use when teaching new phonics content. It includes a worked example of a completed lesson and a blank template.

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The Big Six: a whirlwind tour

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This one-hour webinar recording provides an overview of the Big Six components of literacy (oral language, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension). It includes theoretical understandings and practical ideas for the classroom. It is the first in a series of eight webinars about the Big Six ...

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Phonics pair-game template

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The pair games and activities in this document can be used as part of your systematic synthetic phonics program to encourage students to develop their phonics skills with peers during independent practice.

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Explicit instruction of phonics - an instructional model Q&A

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This Q&A webinar extract answers questions from teachers and school leaders about explicit instruction for phonics instruction.

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Phonics lesson slides: Spelling generalisation for ff ll ss zz

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This sample slideshow presents a ready-to-use phonics lesson to teach the spelling generalisation for the ff ll ss zz spelling pattern (sometimes known as the 'floss' rule), with teacher notes indicating how to teach each part of the lesson.

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Phonics lesson student worksheet: Syllable division: two-syllable words with VC/CV

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This worksheet is for independent student practice of concepts taught in the phonics lesson for syllable division for two-syllable words with a vowel-consonant/consonant-vowel (VC/CV) pattern.

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For school leaders: Leading effective practice

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This webpage provides information for school leaders on how to drive quality instruction and improve student literacy outcomes. It recommends a range of resources that can be used to support leaders in coaching and mentoring staff in best practice literacy instruction.

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Planning resources

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This webpage provides information on how to scope specific literacy content, and to plan what to teach and how to teach it. It provides links to further information and quality resources to support teacher planning.

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Introduction to SSP - Module 3: key understandings

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This 13-minute professional learning video, presented by literacy expert Jocelyn Seamer, discusses key understandings of a systematic, synthetic approach to teaching phonics. It includes information on alphabetic code, sight words, blending and how to meet the needs of all children in the classroom. The other videos in ...

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For school leaders: Understanding the evidence

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This webpage provides information and resources for school leaders about the evidence and research on how students learn to read. It discusses cognitive load theory, explicit instruction, a whole-school curriculum approach, the Big Six of literacy and using a systematic synthetic phonics approach to instruction.

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Phonics lesson slides: Spelling generalisation for soft g and soft c

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This sample slideshow presents a ready-to-use phonics lesson to teach the spelling generalisation for the soft g and soft c sounds (sometimes known as the ‘Gentle Cindy’ rule), with teacher notes indicating how to teach each part of the lesson.

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For school leaders: Using data-informed instruction

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This webpage provides information and resources for school leaders on how to facilitate the use of data to track student progress and inform instruction.

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Explicit instruction for phonics - an instructional model: coaching webinar questions

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Literacy specialists Rebecca McEwan and Elaine Stanley present this question and answer session about using explicit instruction principles within your phonics lesson.

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Choosing and using decodable texts: Q&A

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This video is of a Q&A session about choosing and using decodable texts in your classroom. It is presented by literacy specialists Rebecca McEwan and Elaine Stanley

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Demonstration of a phonics lesson

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This video provides a demonstration of a phonics lesson using explicit instruction principles. It is presented by literacy specialists Elaine Stanley and Rebecca McEwan.

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Assessment and intervention for an SSP approach

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This self-paced learning module outlines the specific areas of knowledge and skills that are assessed for a systematic synthetic phonics approach to teaching reading and spelling. It explains how this approach to assessment is helpful to identify student needs across the Response to Intervention framework. It contains a ...

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Overview of assessment for phonics knowledge and skills

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This document helps teachers create an assessment schedule that includes all the early phonics-related skills necessary for reading and spelling development from Foundation to Year 2.

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Daily review example

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This slide pack provides a sample daily review lesson which is a key component of teaching phonics using a systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) model that follows evidence-based research. It can be adapted to follow any phonics progression or lesson.

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Spelling generalisations and SSP

  • TLF-IDA002954

This self-paced learning module outlines what makes English an opaque language and why it is valuable to teach students spelling generalisations. It explains how to support students to apply spelling generalsiations and how to incorporate them into your systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) lessons. The module contains two ...

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