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Curriculum content descriptions

Orally manipulate more complex sounds in spoken words through knowledge of blending and segmenting sounds, phoneme deletion and substitution in combination with use of letters in reading and writing (ACELA1474)

Elaborations
  • blending and segmenting sounds in words, for example ‘b-r-o-th-er’ or ‘c-l-ou-d-y’
  • deleting and substituting sounds in spoken words to form new words, for example delete the ‘scr’ in ‘scratch’, and then form new words ‘catch’, ‘batch’ and ‘hatch’
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Digraphs,  Silent letters

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