English / Year 2 / Literacy / Phonic and word knowledge

Curriculum content descriptions

use phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter/s) matches, including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, consonant clusters and silent letters when reading and writing words of one or more syllables, including compound words (AC9E2LY10)

Elaborations
  • reading words with digraphs where one letter is not pronounced; for example, “knife” and “thumb”, when reading and using them in writing
  • providing the sounds for less common letter–sound matches; for example, “ight”, and using them in writing
  • reading words with vowel digraphs (“ee”, “oo”, “ai”, “ay”, “ea”)
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Reading,  Phonemes,  Spelling

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