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English / Year 6 / Language / Phonics and word knowledge

Curriculum content descriptions

Understand how to use phonic knowledge and accumulated understandings about blending, letter-sound relationships, common and uncommon letter patterns and phonic generalisations to read and write increasingly complex words (ACELA1830)

Elaborations
  • using phonic generalisations to read and write complex words with uncommon letter patterns, for example ‘pneumonia’, ‘resuscitate’ and ‘vegetation’
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Phonemes

Text

Every Word Has a Story

The approach taken in this sequence is to introduce students to the history of the English language and to explore the etymology or origin of English words. Students will be introduced to the meaning of Latin and Greek roots and explore how prefixes and suffixes change word meaning and function. This understanding supports ...

Interactive

Syllabus bites: types of sentences

A web page resource with information, teacher guides and activities on types of sentences to support the Australian Curriculum in English K–10. It has detailed activities, links to resources and quizzes.

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Creating change as a literacy coach

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Principals as Literacy Leaders Project

This teacher resource describes the Principals as Literacy Leaders (PALL) professional learning strategy aimed at strengthening the capability of school principals to bring about improvement in the reading abilities of students in low socioeconomic status and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The resource ...