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Understand how to apply learned knowledge consistently in order to spell accurately and to learn new words including nominalisations (ACELA1549)

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  • understanding the different ways complex words are constructed and, when spelling these words, drawing on morphemic knowledge and knowledge of unusual letter combinations
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  • Literacy Literacy
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The aim of this resource is to support students to identify and build meaning of words and their affixes. Students will learn to use contextual clues to determine best word choice. The resource includes a list of strategies that may help to build vocabulary. It includes a list organised from most frequently used suffixes ...

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This webpage provides examples of examples of Latin affixes, Greek affixes, a list of the 20 most frequently used prefixes, and a list of the 20 most frequently used suffixes. It also includes sone interactive activities for students to test their knowledge.

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Syllabus bites: Exploring Asia-related texts

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Syllabus bites: Visual literacy

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A resource with information, study guides and resources on visual literacy to support the English K-10 Australian Curriculum in English. It provides a series of activities, guidelines and tasks about visual texts from a variety of sources. Contains writing scaffolds, templates and proformas for responding and composing ...

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This resource is a revision for students of some of the rules for punctuation and spelling, with examples. It covers sentences, paragraphing, apostrophes, punctuating dialogue, ellipses, brackets, titles, acronyms, ampersands, commonly confused words and IM and Text Speak.

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