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K–10English K–10 Syllabus

Record of changes
Implementation for K–2 from 2023 and 3–10 from 2024
Expand for detailed implementation advice

Content

Early Stage 1

Phonic knowledge
Single-letter graphemes
  • Match a Loading  with a Loading 

  • Say the most common phoneme for single-letter Loading  (graphs)

  • Loading  single-letter Loading  to Loading  VC and Loading , and apply this knowledge when Loading , including Loading 

  • Loading  and encode single-letter VC and CVC words, and apply this knowledge when writing words and creating Loading 

  • Blend common single-letter grapheme–phoneme correspondences to read CCVC and CVCC words, and apply this when reading texts, including decodable texts

  • Segment common, single-letter grapheme–phoneme correspondences to Loading  CCVC and CVCC words

Digraphs
  • Decode and blend words containing Loading  and apply this when reading texts, including decodable texts

  • Segment and encode CVC words containing consonant digraphs

  • Decode words containing Loading  and Loading 

  • Experiment with encoding Loading  containing split digraphs and vowel digraphs

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