Scope and Sequence of Spelling Strategies
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Content Descriptions
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Key Concepts |
Prep
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Know that spoken sounds and words can be written down using letters of the alphabet and how to write some high-frequency sight words and known words (ACELA1758)
Know how to use onset and rime to spell words (ACELA1438) Recognise rhymes, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words (ACELA1439) Recognise the letters of the alphabet and know there are lower and upper case letters (ACELA1440) |
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Year 1
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Know that regular one-syllable words are made up of letters and common letter clusters that correspond to the sounds heard, and how to use visual memory to write high-frequency words (ACELA1778)
Recognise and know how to use morphemes in word families for example ‘play’ in ‘played’ and ‘playing’ (ACELA1455) Manipulate sounds in spoken words including phoneme deletion and substitution (ACELA1457) Recognise sound-letter matches including common vowel and consonant digraphs and consonant blends (ACELA1458) Understand the variability of sound-letter matches (ACELA1459) |
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Year 2
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Understand how to use digraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell words, and use morphemes and syllabification to break up simple words and use visual memory to write irregular words (ACELA1471)
Recognise common prefixes and suffixes and how they change a word’s meaning (ACELA1472) Recognise most sound–letter matches including silent letters, vowel/consonant digraphs and many less common sound–letter combinations (ACELA1474) |
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Year 3
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Know that word contractions are a feature of informal language and that apostrophes of contraction are used to signal missing letters (ACELA1480)
Understand how to use sound–letter relationships and knowledge of spelling rules, compound words, prefixes, suffixes, morphemes and less common letter combinations, for example ‘tion’ (ACELA1485) |
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Year 4
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Understand how to use strategies for spelling words, including spelling rules, knowledge of morphemic word families, spelling generalisations, and letter combinations including double letters (ACELA1779)
Recognise homophones and know how to use context to identify correct spelling (ACELA1780) |
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Year 5
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Understand that the pronunciation, spelling and meanings of words have histories and change over time (ACELA1500)
Understand how the grammatical category of possessives is signalled through apostrophes and how to use apostrophes with common and proper nouns (ACELA1506) Understand how to use banks of known words, as well as word origins, prefixes and suffixes, to learn and spell new words (ACELA1513) Recognise uncommon plurals, for example ‘foci’ (ACELA1514) |
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Year 6
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Understand how to use banks of known words, word origins, base words, suffixes and prefixes, morphemes, spelling patterns and generalisations to learn and spell new words, for example technical words and words adopted from other languages (ACELA1526)
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