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use phonic knowledge of common and less common grapheme–phoneme relationships to read and write increasingly complex words (AC9E6LY08)

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  • using phonic generalisations to read and write complex words with uncommon letter patterns; for example, “pneumonia”, “resuscitate” and “vegetation”
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  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Phonemes,  Morphemes,  Spelling

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