ACELA1438

Understand how to use knowledge of letters and sounds including onset and rime to spell words

Elaborations

• recognising the most common sound made by each letter of the alphabet, including consonants and short vowel sounds, for example 'p-op' (Skills: Literacy)
• breaking words into onset and rime, noticing words that share the same pattern, for example 'p-at', 'b-at' (Skills: Literacy)
• breaking words into onset and rime to learn how to spell words that share the same pattern, for example 'p-at', 'b-at', 't-all' and 'f-all' (Skills: Literacy)
• building word families using onset and rime, for example 'h-ot', 'g-ot', 'n-ot', 'sh-ot' (Skills: Literacy)

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