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K–10English K–10 Syllabus (2022)

Implementation from 2024
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Content

Early Stage 1

Phonological awareness
Words
  • Repeat words and Loading 

  • Complete familiar spoken phrases in Loading , including chants, Loading , songs and poems

  • Loading  a spoken Loading  of 3 to 5 words into separate spoken words

Syllables
  • Orally Loading  and segment Loading  in words comprising up to 3 syllables

  • Blend Loading  and Loading  to say a one-syllable word

Phonemes
  • Provide a word when given a starting Loading 

  • Consistently say the first phoneme of a spoken one-syllable word

  • Listen to up to 4 words, indicate those that start with the same phoneme and say other words that start with that phoneme

  • Orally blend up to 4 phonemes together to make a one-syllable spoken word

  • Orally segment one-syllable words comprised of up to 4 phonemes into separate phonemes

  • Loading  the number of phonemes that make up a spoken one-syllable word comprising fewer than 4 phonemes

  • Identify the first, middle and final phonemes in a one-syllable word

  • Identify the difference between a voiced phoneme and an unvoiced phoneme

  • Blend aloud all phonemes when asked to delete, add or substitute an initial phoneme

  • Blend aloud all phonemes when asked to delete, add or substitute a final phoneme

  • Blend aloud all phonemes when asked to substitute a medial Loading  phoneme

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